In place of traditional show notes, a movie script sat on each seat at the Dior cruise 2027 show in Los Angeles. The brand’s new creative director, Jonathan Anderson, dreamed up a cinematic version of the press release in which designers typically explain their inspirations and credit collaborators. As it turns out, it was a precursor of what was to come down the runway: fun, inventive twists on the familiar.
The show perfectly melded the past, present, and future of Hollywood: The moody Hitchcockian lighting and film noir references captured a bygone era, while the just-opened gallery setting and a front row filled with the next generation of Hollywood icons, including Miley Cyrus and Maude Apatow, evoked the industry’s current landscape and next chapter. “Christian Dior understood how important the idea of ‘the dream’ was for people after the war, as a form of escapism,” Anderson wrote in the script. “He explored this in couture; his surrealist friends were obsessed with dreams and, of course, Hollywood is ‘The Dream Factory.’ It was all part of the same cross-cultural shift.” Scroll down for my full breakdown of everything you need to know from Dior cruise 2027.
