Jonathan Anderson for Dior: Cultivated by Hand

For his Spring/Summer 2026 Haute Couture debut at Dior, Jonathan Anderson treats couture as a form of living knowledge — something grown, shaped and protected through the hands that make it. Presented at the Musée Rodin, the collection unfolded amid the hushed grandeur of the gardens, coinciding with Grammar of Forms, an exhibition that placed Anderson’s first couture looks in dialogue with archival Dior garments and the ceramic sculptures of Magdalene Odundo. Across both show and exhibition, textiles become sites of experimentation, where nature, craft and sculpture meet in slow conversation.

Cyclamen Dress, Dior Spring/Summer 2026. 

The collection is rooted in a close study of natural systems, translated through precise and time-intensive savoir-faire. Cyclamen emerge as a central motif, transformed by Maison Lemarié into dense embroidered fields that read almost as textile abstractions.

Metal mould used for the silk cyclamen embroidered adornments. Dior S/S 2026. 

Each petal is cut individually from silk — selected for its capacity to absorb dye and respond to heat — then shaped using metal moulds, some centuries old, preserved within the atelier like botanical archives. Dyed in subtle dégradés of five greens and six pinks, the petals are sewn one by one, forming surfaces that oscillate between embroidery, relief and fabric architecture, blooming across dresses and accessories...

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Image Credits:

Lead: Stitching together silk cyclamen details for Jonathan Andersons Spring/Summer Dior collection.

All images courtesy of Dior