For Spring/Summer 2026, Dior Haute Couture enters a new chapter under Creative Director Jonathan Anderson, who presents his first couture collection as a living laboratory of ideas, craft and evolution. Drawing parallels between nature and couture, Anderson approaches fashion as a system in motion: urgent, precise and continually reimagined. He is drawn to objects marked by time: meteorites, fossils, 18th-century fabrics and portrait miniatures. Rather than treating them as untouchable artefacts, Anderson reworks them as catalysts for renewed relevance.

Nature and artifice meet throughout. Cyclamen flowers, gifted by former Dior Creative Director John Galliano, become symbols of creative continuity, alongside the anthropomorphic ceramic works of Magdalene Odundo. Flowing lines, sculptural shapes and gentle draping establish a new grammar of forms that expands the House’s vocabulary while echoing its foundations. The collection is conceived as a modern wunderkammer, where museum-quality pieces and natural wonders are gathered, transformed and preserved through use.

The most remarkable handwork plays with scale: silk flowers, dense embroideries, layered chiffon and organza, veiled balloon tops and experimental knitwear. Sculptural handbags debut as couture objects, while shoes, jewelry, and accessories incorporate rare materials, archival references and natural motifs.

From 27 January, the Musée Rodin hosts Grammar of Forms, a week-long exhibition placing Anderson’s designs in dialogue with Dior heritage and Odundo’s ceramics, aiming to demystify couture and inspire its future.