Warm concrete, gasoline, tuberose. The bassline from Air's Sexy Boy ricocheting across Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)’s hard concrete walls while convertible headlights and street lights washed over glitter-slicked gowns and metallic knits. A woman in a silver cape crosses the courtyard with a newspaper-print clutch tucked beneath her arm; a shadowy figure stands beside a pink convertible reading a book, unable to be made out in any detail.
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This was the scene of Jonathan Anderson’s Dior Cruise 2027 collection show held this evening in Los Angeles. A few hundred of the Maison's guest – including Taylor Russell, Role Model, JISOO, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sabrina Carpenter – were seated in the LACMA courtyard, amongst monolithic curving cement walls and interspersed with street lamps and convertibles.
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Nature remained central to Anderson’s vision, extending ideas first explored at the house’s Tuileries presentation. Oversized floral appliqués bloomed once more across coats and dresses, while tiny white tuberose-like flowers formed fringed trims pinned at shoulders or cascading from hems. Dainty feathers twisted into words – “Dior”, “Flow”, “Buzz” – to become sculptural headdresses, trembling with the wearer's gait.
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The clothes themselves oscillated between modernity and nostalgia. Dior’s Bar jacket returned, this time decidedly more louche and relaxed, though with some versions edged in distressed blue beading and raw hems. Capes re-appeared in glittering metallic knits, while looped beaded dresses clung and draped with fluidity. Glitter coated nearly everything: sunglasses, eyeshadow, handbags and dresses that flashed silver each time a model found themselves caught beneath the lights. Pyjama-like shirts with contrast piping, checked tops stamped with numerals, and mismatched earrings all added to the collection’s offbeat energy.
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Accessories pushed the narrative further. Lady Dior bags arrived in houndstooth, Bow Bags in newspaper print and Saddle Bags in new padded finishes that couldn't help but make us think of interior convertible seats or vinyl diner booths. The new Dior Cigale Bag also appeared, alongside playful snail and ladybug minaudières, and Anderson’s pin-holder porcupine purse, first teased on Instagram days earlier.
As models appeared for a finale walk, Kelly Watch the Stars by Air swelled through the courtyard, and a dense golden light soaked the space like sunlight. Models' elongated shadows stretched across the pavement like the closing shot of an old Hollywood thriller, disappearing into the synthetic sunset.
