Dior Spring/Summer 2026: Jonathan Anderson ushers in a new era for the French house with miniskirts, extraordinary bows, and black lace maxi veils

Jonathan Anderson has debuted at Dior's women's line with a premise that opens the doors to creativity: "change is inevitable." For his (highly anticipated) first offering, the maison's icons engage in a dialogue between harmony and tension, serenity and noise. In the Northern Irishman's hands, the hourglass-shaped New Look silhouette shrinks: the Bar jacket narrows at the waist and the pleated skirt is contained at the thigh. The idea of sweet femininity designed by Christian Dior is also altered. Between denim miniskirts and drapes, some cuts, mostly filled with curves, become sharper, and black lace is transformed into veils and scarves, as Yves Saint Laurent did for the French house's Fall/Winter 1959 collection. The pleats that obsessed the firm's founder in 1953 are reborn, splendid, in trousers and dresses. In Dior's new era, the tension between opposites--sweet and bold, masculine and feminine, past and present--becomes a gateway for a new generation