Heritage in motion at Dior Spring-Summer 2026 Women’s Ready-to-Wear show

Decoding the language of Dior – at the same time familiar and unexpected –Jonathan Anderson unveiled his first Women’s ready-to-wear collection for the Maison.

An invitation to dream big, to embrace the theater of life and savor the compelling power of fashion to transform the everyday into a fantastical landscape.     

After a prelude in the form of a short film revisiting the Dior archives, the Spring-Summer 2026 collection debuted with a striking white dress, emblematic of a new era. Rather than lock heritage away in a box, history is deconstructed, as in subverted hats. The flamboyance of the accessory contrasts with miniskirts in denim, leather, checked or pleated, seeming to elongate the silhouettes. Audacity meets serenity, the monumental dialogues with the ordinary, and virtuosity reveals itself through simplicity. Bows appear and dissolve at will, adorning a collar, resting on the bust, emphasizing the waist or tracing out a train, offering a signature red thread throughout the collection.  

Dior codes emerge in subtle fragments – sculpted curves echoing the Bar jacket, flowers blooming in the folds of a dress or at the tip of a stiletto, cannage motifs on a minaudière. Fabric petals conceal pockets, lace collars veil and reveal the face, while capes multiply in a single theatrical flourish. Viewed through this new prism, Dior’s past resonates in the present, resolutely looking to the future.