Good morning. How are you?
I'm good. Good to see you.
Welcome to Dior. We are at Dior for Jonathan Anderson's second menswear show.
An army of canaries and chicks.
Oh my God.
The first collection and this one are the search for like, what is the new aristocracy today? Like, what is that?
The guests are diorified! Robert Pattinson, Lakeith Stanfield, Jamie Dornan, Mile and Apo. Oh la la, it's Dior time. Archie Madekwe, the actor Mamadou Sididé, Mia Goth, Jack O'Connell, Lewis Hamilton, Joe Alwyn, Hyunjin, Louis Garrel, Paul Kircher, Moses Martin, Sam Nivola, Yung Lean, Min-gyu Kim, Takumi Kitamura, Ryusei Yokohama, Manu Rios, Sza, Tony Leung, Nadia Melliti — she just got the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025.
Spanish singer sensation Guitarrica, Florence Hunt, David Jonsson. First Dior show for Terrence O'Connor.
Chrome flooring. Velvet curtains. Everything signals protocol, yet this is the boy who arrives.
I love this look. I'd love to be able to pull it on. He's playing with us.
I had a blast. We're in the ateliers to break down the technicalities.
What have you been enjoying this season?
On the pleated collars. We made thousands of pleated collars.
How do you spell Dior but not see it?
I can't believe you come up with this shit so fast.
I can't wait to wear it at a gala, at my openings, my exhibitions, everything. I mean, absolute king.
Joy to see excellent actors like Marie Colomb.
Yes, but it's also my first Dior show ever!
French-Korean singer sensation Miki, Susie Lau and Bryanboy. He's wearing Dior ready-to-wear, women's wear summer 2026.
You're wearing women's wear?
Of course. It's a rugby shirt, not really a women's item. It's for everyone. Clothes have no gender, you know.
How many lucky charms on you today?
I actually counted. That was my mission on the internet. There's 40 clover leaves here, 40 here and 90 and 90. So it's like 180 plus 80, 260.
And you have more on your necklace?
I didn't count it. It's probably like 20. But you know, it's not about the number. It's about the charm. And today's my lucky day.
Paul Kelly. It's his first appearance at a Parisian fashion show. Paul Kelly is about to have his big break in the role of John John Kennedy in the drama series American Love Story.
Young French actors who played together in the film Enzo, Nathan Japy and Eloy Pohu, probably the shyest person in the room.
And we did together his first film in the cinema and one of my first. Only firsts for both of us.
Absolute newcomer Oladipo Ezekiel opened the show. His sequined top is inspired by a Paul Poiret dress that was simply, radically, sliced clean.
Who are the three first tops inspired by? They're inspired by the wonderful Paul Poiret.
This collection is built out of three kind of ideas that happened in a consecutive moment in a week. I was outside the Dior store and I never realized there was like a plaque on the ground. There's a Paul Poiret mosaic right outside the store. And I was like, why is that there?
And yes, right on the sidewalk of Avenue Montaigne, directly in front of the Dior boutique, there's a commemorative plaque for Paul Poiret, like a couture walk of fame.
It's also worth noting that the very first menswear silhouette Christian Dior ever designed was for the valet, the voiturier at the Trente Montaigne boutique, who also served as a doorman. Christian Dior wanted him in full livery, ultra formal, inspired by the valet at Molyneux, the English haute couture house of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Dior had seen him on Rue Royale, where he lived during those years.
A collage of formal couture, eccentricity and contemporary music.
A guy that I do a lot of research for like vintage clothing, he brought in this like amazing Poiret dress from 1922, never been worn. And I was like, okay, well, that's kind of a weird sign.
And then I went to LA and then I met this singer that I am obsessed by called Mk.gee. And I was like, well, what does Christian Dior, Paul Poiret, Mk.gee all kind of into one, like a kind of odd collage.
Jonathan Anderson has fun signing the clothes and accessories. The Dior D is integrated into the silhouette of the shoes and also appears on the necklines of the knitwear.
You already wear the Roadie? I already have the Roadie which are extraordinary.
I was hypnotized by the shoes, the boots, the one with the buckle on the side. Honestly I found it magnificent.
And then this is where we meticulously studied Poiret. How do we, sometimes actually to recreate something is even harder. It's like in film, to recreate things in film is sometimes the hardest.
Anytime they walked by any light, every single piece of fabric glittered, which I like. Yeah, that made me happy.
And then the bags are all like cashmere.
Every aspect of this event's communication is meticulously crafted to spark curiosity, desire and a sense of novelty, while simultaneously projecting a timeless sophistication. For instance, the invitation arrived by delivery man in a grey presentation box featuring a rough handmade in the Dior Ateliers.
This is what you received as an invitation.
What's more, we treat them rather badly.
The pleat is all handmade. You have to do a small finish before and then pleat after. Flat pleats like that, tac, tac, tac. And here, since they meet here in the middle, it makes a hollow pleat. It's special.
How much work time for each one?
The longest is the pleating. I think it's two days of work.
This is a scarf that we found by Poiret. Obviously, it's of butterfly wings. And then we had it done by the factory to recreate the jacquard from it.
What I like is that you're taking the scarf, you're taking the coat, you're taking the shearling coat and kind of like, but then making it with Dior so it's flawless.
We sneaked in when Spanish singer sensation Guitarrica was getting the explanation by a head seamstress.
It's incredible. It's very delicate. It's a golden thread.
Yes, gold and silk. It's really incredible. When you are walking, it flies like that. It's for a prince.
The Italian director Luca Guadagnino follows closely the creative process of Jonathan Anderson.
The idea of twisting his love for Poiret and bringing into his idea of Dior menswear, it's the most incredible act of reflection that he puts in motion through his work, which is both moving constantly in between the great formalistic designing and at the same time in shaping the future of the way you look.
Paul Poiret was famous for his use of clashing colors, bright, bright fabrics that would scream and people would only see you at the ball. His use of brocade is legendary.
The collection is a bit like Peter Pan, you know, like dressing up as someone, which looks at this idea of like, you know, like Poiret is ultimately somewhere where he removes structure, Dior puts structure back in. And it's a contradiction between the two.
And it's that kind of thing where when you look at Poiret, there was moments where they would have parties and they would dress up. There is something about this idea that when you go into a big chest and you will pull out everything, it's like you pull a cashmere coat, you pull a scarf and you put it all together into an outfit. So there's something quite childlike in that or naive in it.
It's connected to the zeitgeist, you know, just rich and young, which is what we want it to be.
A lot of women are going to be wearing men's.
Yeah, a lot of women are going to be wearing men's.
