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Jonathan Anderson Turns the Tuileries Into a Monet Painting for Dior's Fall/Winter 2026 Show
Fake water lilies, an 18th-century mood and a heatwave in March made for one of the season's most talked-about settings
Jonathan Anderson's second Dior womenswear collection, shown on Tuesday, March 3, transformed the Jardin des Tuileries into a glazed, laurel-green pavilion built around the park's real fountain basin, its surface dotted with artificial water lilies inspired by Claude Monet — florals being a signature Anderson brought with him from his previous house.
An unseasonable heatwave turned the greenhouse-style venue uncomfortably warm for guests, but the 60-plus-look collection, riffing on 18th-century codes of dress and social hierarchy, was widely praised as a confident step beyond his celebrated debut. Anderson opened the show with knitted Bar jackets layered over embroidered mini skirts, softening the house's famously rigid tailoring into something more fluid, before introducing peplum-shaped Bar jackets and dresses that would go on to become one of the season's defining silhouettes across Paris.
The front row was one of the most star-studded of the week, with Charlize Theron and Anya Taylor-Joy both longtime Dior ambassadors — seated alongside Jisoo, Willow Smith, Emily Ratajkowski and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, underscoring how thoroughly Anderson has expanded the house's cultural reach in just over a year at the helm.
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