Last night, Derry-born designer Jonathan Anderson showed his first Dior Cruise collection since taking over the storied French fashion house as Creative Director in 2025.
Held in the newly opened David Geffen Galleries in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), a cavernous space that echoed the expanse of a Hollywood sound stage, the collection drew on Dior’s long-standing relationship with cinema, Hollywood stars and artists.
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Sabrina Carpenter, Alison Oliver, Al Pacino, Miley Cyrus, Anya Taylor-Joy and more were among the starry guests on the night.
The space was dotted with solo streetlights and revving vintage cars, while guests received a screenplay in lieu of the traditional show notes.
Written as a script for the show, it referenced Hollywood icon Marlene Dietrich’s insistence that she only wear Dior on screen, famously quipping, “No Dior, No Dietrich!”
In the notes, Anderson wrote about Christian Dior’s close relationship with cinema, highlighting how two films Dior worked on – Les Enfants Terrible by Jean-Pierre Melville and Stage Fright by Alfred Hitchcock – inspired the Cruise collection.
The opening designs echoed those worn by stars like Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Lorena and more, with floral motifs still a major piece for Anderson.
Here, he nodded toward California and the Californian poppy, with a bright orange dress that “looks like a field of poppies”.
Other designs featured dramatic draping that was reminiscent of 1930s silhouettes, dropped waists, opulent striped fur coats and sheer skirts and blouses.
Anderson continued to rework the iconic Dior bar jacket, here extending the hemline over the hips and fraying the edges.
Gradually, the womenswear designs shifted into menswear designs, with heavy layering, geometric shadowing and pops of bright colour.
Some models walked the runway wearing minimalist headwear pieces, spelling out ‘Dior’, ‘Star’ and ‘Flow’, designed by legendary Irish milliner Philip Treacy.
In the show notes, Treacy says: “Working with Jonathan on these pieces felt like revisiting a part of my own history, reworking a technique created for Isabella Blow’s ‘BLOW’ hat into something new for 2026.”
Click through the gallery above for all the celebrity looks from the show.