{"id":44012,"date":"2026-06-30T20:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/44012\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:07:14","slug":"diors-2027-cruise-show-was-a-hollywood-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/44012\/","title":{"rendered":"Dior\u2019s 2027 Cruise show was a Hollywood dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even for Los Angeles, it was a starry night at the Dior Cruise 2027 show.<\/p>\n

To showcase its inaugural ready-to-wear Cruise collection, the storied fashion brand staged a Hollywood fantasia in May at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which recently christened its much buzzed-about David Geffen Galleries.<\/p>\n

\"Runway Phillip Treacy created headpieces for the Dior Cruise men\u2019s looks.Maddy Rotman<\/p>\n

After walking a gauntlet of paparazzi near the museum entrance\u2019s famous streetlamps, luminaries like Al Pacino, Anya Taylor-Joy, Miley Cyrus, Macaulay Culkin, Chase Sui, EJAE, Jeff Goldblum, and Tracee Ellis Ross posed for photographs in front of Dior\u2019s stone-gray step-and-repeat and amid the vintage convertibles placed around the LACMA pavilion, which had been transformed into a runway. <\/p>\n

Evoking film noir, models in California-poppy florals, sequined suits, bespoke headpieces, shirts designed with artist Edward Ruscha, and lace dresses emerged from a fog slashed with the exaggerated shadows of window blinds. They strutted to a tres chic soundtrack that concluded with the Tinseltown-inspired \u201cKelly Watch the Stars\u201d from the French electronic duo Air.<\/p>\n

\"Tracee Tracee Ellis Ross Stefanie Keenan\/Getty Images for Christian Dior<\/p>\n

It was all \u201can illusion of L.A., in L.A.,\u201d noted a screenplay of the evening, which outlined \u201cthe House\u2019s longstanding relationship with Hollywood.\u201d The script, placed on every seat beside a Dior cashmere blanket, began with a scene in 1949 between Alfred Hitchcock, Warner Bros executives, and Marlene Dietrich, who declared, \u201cNo Dior, No Dietrich\u201d in her negotiations to headline the film Stage Fright. Wearing the brand, in this telling, ensured that her seductress character Charlotte Inwood \u201cappears truly glamorous.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"Al Al PacinoStefanie Keenan\/Getty Images for Christian Dior <\/p>\n

Stage Fright, along with Les Enfants Terrible, were two 1950 films that involved a collaboration with house founder Christian Dior, and these \u201care the main starting points for this collection,\u201d Jonathan Anderson, Dior\u2019s creative director since 2025, noted in the script. (The line\u2019s mood board included images of classic stars like Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor, in addition to the aforementioned queer icon.) <\/p>\n

\"Dior A model struts at the Dior Cruise 2027 show at LACMA with a Saddle Bag.courtesy Dior<\/p>\n

Anderson himself has become an emerging Hollywood figure; he worked as costume designer for two Luca Guadagnino films, Challengers and Queer, which provides another line of connection between himself and the late French designer who gave the \u201cNew Look\u201d to the world. The gay fashion guru, also known for his eponymous label JW Anderson, clearly leaned into history as much as camp in this show\u2019s staging.<\/p>\n

And in the screenplay press notes, playfully titled Wilshire Boulevard (the location of LACMA, as well as a riff on Billy Wilder\u2019s midcentury film noir), Anderson spoke with some seriousness to the relationship between film and fashion, particularly in times of turmoil.<\/p>\n

\"Dior Florals figured prominently in the Dior Cruise collection.courtesy Dior<\/p>\n

\u201cChristian Dior understood how important the idea of \u2018the dream\u2019 was for people after the war \u2014 as a form of escapism,\u201d Anderson stated. \u201cHe explores this in couture, his Surrealist friends were obsessed with dreams and, of course, Hollywood is \u2018The Dream Factory.\u2019 It was all part of the same cross-cultural shift.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LACMA LACMA received a film noir transformation for the Dior Cruise 2027 show.Eric Staudenmair<\/p>\n

The screenplay concluded, \u201cThe guests wind their way back to their cars and are driven to the show after-party at a location nearby.\u201d That location turned out to be the Chateau Marmont, the storied Sunset Strip hotel modeled after a French castle. There, the stars, draped in Dior blankets, sipped champagne with one hand. And in the grand tradition of a Hollywood happy ending, they ate a cheeseburger from In-N-Out with the other.<\/p>\n

This article is part of OUT\u2019s July-Aug 2026 print issue, on newsstands July 7. Support queer media and subscribe<\/a> \u2014 or download the issue now through Apple News+, Zinio, Nook, or PressReader.<\/p>\n

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