US EditionJonathan Anderson on Taking the Reins at Dior: ‘How Do You Make History?’
ÎLE-DE-FRANCE, FRANCE, JUN 27 – Jonathan Anderson’s first Dior menswear collection draws on collegiate tailoring and American sportswear influences with unique accessories and historical embroidery, signaling a fresh creative direction.
- Jonathan Anderson debuted as Dior's overall creative director with the menswear Spring/Summer 2026 show in Paris today, featuring archival inspirations and modern tailoring.
- Anderson assumed this role amid Dior's historical sales growth and pressure to innovate while preserving legacy, following Bernard Arnault's confirmation and Delphine Arnault's leadership.
- The collection reinterpreted house codes like the Bar jacket in Irish Donegal tweed, incorporated 18th-century floral embroidery, and referenced portraits of Basquiat and Radziwill by Andy Warhol.
- Anderson said on the eve of his debut that breaking the creative cycle would take five collections, requiring bravery to engage Dior’s past without erasing prior contributors.
- This debut marks Anderson as the first sole designer since Christian Dior to oversee all collections, suggesting a new phase for Dior blending historic reverence with fresh vision.
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Dior presented his new artistic director, Jonathan Anderson, the designer who radically changed to the hundred-year-old Spanish firm Loewe, on Friday 27 June in Men's Fashion Week, and who now has the responsibility to do the same with all the collection lines of the French brand.
The great unknown of the week of men’s fashion in Paris, which began on Tuesday, had first name and surname: Jonathan Anderson. The parade of his first collection as creative director of Dior, an appointment that was announced on June 2, although already in April Bernard Arnault, executive director of LVMH, had anticipated that the Norwegian would design the collection of man, has revealed several of the questions, which were not few.
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