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John Galliano is God. I am a devotee. When he followed me on Instagram I genuinely could not sleep that night. That is the level of emotional instability we are dealing with here. So yes, stepping into Jonathan Anderson’s first couture moment at Dior, knowing Galliano was a little part of it was just beautiful.. And then there were the flowers. Oh the pink flowers. The sweetest tribute.
There was something about this that instantly took me back to Raf’s first couture for Dior in 2012. That debut is one of my all time favourite collections as well, truly iconic, and this felt like it was in conversation with it. The flowers as architecture, the purity of the gesture, the way restraint somehow made everything feel even more emotional.
I will admit it. I was sceptical. The last few Dior collections have felt distant to me, intresting but disconnected. This was not that. This was impeccable. This was JWA absolutely killing it. Vivaldi swelling in the background, flowers balanced on shoulders and ears, silhouettes that felt sculptural but alive. Couture was alive. This collection had everything. Drama, craft, whimsy, intellect, emotion.
Flowers were everywhere and very obvious. Cyclamen clustered at ears, orchids balanced on shoulders, petals translated into ruffles, feathers and embroidery. Dresses shimmered like wet leaves. There were shingled feather skirts, draped silk tops that moved like breath, watery column gowns with appliqué that looked poured onto the body. One look carried a giant leaf umbrella, ridiculous and perfect. Mini dresses mimicked flowers in bloom.
Nature was everywhere, but never in the predictable, floral-for-floral’s-sake way. It was embedded into the clothes, into the structure, into how fabric moved and misbehaved. Jonathan Anderson’s first couture for Dior felt like a fully realised world, and more importantly, a deeply cohesive one. Orchids balanced on shoulders. Cyclamen clustered at ears. Foliage erupted from hems in green tassels.
What made the collection compelling was its refusal to settle on a single silhouette or thesis. Couture as curiosity. Couture as experimentation. Couture that trusted intelligence over spectacle. It had everything, and somehow, it never felt like too much.
Pictures courtesy of Vogue Runway
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