Dior Menswear S/S 2026 Paris

[90sfan]

Its just a JW show, done with nicer fabrics. But overall not modern, not even so old fashioned that it would feel fresh. Just so so, but i expected even worse.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

I knew it was going to be like this, yet I held back my expectations. What I find so painful about this is the way it is so suitably and conventionally “disruptive”. It makes the audience that is there go “wow, so different and so fresh for Dior” but we’ve seen it all before at Loewe, his namesake and his slew of twink-to-twunk bodied ambassadors over the years.

I’m tired. I’m dreary. I’m not going to say I’m not hopeful but I found it a bore. A palatable bore, because everything here is so easy to understand with all its “upsets” to enforce a quirkiness but that I find so saccharine and pandering. Nothing here is exciting. It all just seems visually present and cumbersome. It’s gonna sell well though. He always does and the majority of the pieces have Tik Tok frenzy all over them.

It’s a calculating collection, but it truly doesn’t do much for fashion, let alone Dior. Will see how his womenswear goes but frankly I’m looking to move on. Not from him (he’s just started) but from this kind of thing in general.

 

[hamburgers]

So how are they going to differentiate this on the racks from Loewe and Celine mens

 

[ecnerretneerg]

Aside from most of the bags and shoes, I think the collection was pretty good. However, I agree with the criticism of how boring the guests were dressed. The team probably wanted to avoid spoiling the collection (understandable) but I don’t think it did them any favors in terms of world building or affective influencer marketing. They all looked like seating staff.

 

[Kimihiro]

I guess what I missed was the glamour. It’s been a while since Dior was glamourous.

 

[youthinasia]

Aside from most of the bags and shoes, I think the collection was pretty good. However, I agree with the criticism of how boring the guests were dressed. The team probably wanted to avoid spoiling the collection (understandable) but I don’t think it did them any favors in terms of world building or affective influencer marketing. They all looked like seating staff.

The outside ushers in the grey knitwear and wide fit pants looked better than the Dior-dressed celebrities.

 

[carla56]

I like the idea of styling, of dressing freely, mixing elegant and casual pieces, in a deliberately wrong way... what I hate is when the same styling tricks are transferred to celebrities. For example, I hated it when Josh O'Connor got out of the car with his shirt collar fixed and a "stylist?" pulled it up for a fake "wrong" effect. It's the same concept of having guests at YSL a few days ago with total leather or wool looks when it was 35 degrees in Paris. Simply ridiculous, besides obviously depriving the character of any possibility of personalising and making a look his own.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

For example, I hated it when Josh O'Connor got out of the car with his shirt collar fixed and a "stylist?" pulled it up for a fake "wrong" effect.

So, so, so TRUE.

 

[GRCF]

Burn k pop to the ground. That’s all I got from this so far as I wait. What a frightening display of obsession…

100%

I think we might see the whole collection before the show even begins, almost every celebrity so far who is attending seems to be wearing Anderson's Dior.

I was thinking this as I was watching the guests arrive. That might as well have been the show.

Overall it felt like you know when everyone is hyping up a film and you go in with high expectations because everyone is raving about it? You watch the film and you're like:

Overall it was JWA x Loewe x Uniqlo x Dior. Underwhelming but I did not hate it. There are some items that as a woman I would buy (vest from look 12 especially). But I can't differentiate from anything else JWA has done. At least it wasn't a thesis in surrealism, but we still have the women's collection for that. The Basquiat images had me side-eyeing him, but I'm also not a fan of Basquiat.

I guess bravo for not breaking anything (yet).

I might be the only one who hates the proportions of the bar jacket on Sabrina.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

Oh yeah the Sabrina look… corny. And itchy looking.

 

[ecnerretneerg]

I might be the only one who hates the proportions of the bar jacket on Sabrina.

No, I hated it too. I think her lack of height plus her hair style made the entire look odd. I really liked what Ethel Cain and Mia Goth wore though

 

[MModa]

Loved the collection and presentation. Bravo!

 

[vetements]

What a great debut. He is smart and not egoistic to alienate the Dior customers; the oblique logos are there, so was the CD logo, and the book tote but done in a refreshed whimsical way that boys (and some men) will like, it is all very calculated to sell, but I love it, I can happily move from Loewe to Dior now. the jeans and fringed scarves styling reminds me of Hedi`s, the shoes and bags of Loewe`s...

some of the coats are also nice, so are the colors, commercial but with a reasonable experimental elements, nothing too artsy so as not to rock the boat, the man has a mission to sell, given how LVMH performance has been the last year. It is now as crazy as his own

The styling (was the bow tie reallya bow tie or a scarf tie to look like a bow tie?) and casting was good (anyone know who was the first (mixed) model to walk first during the finale? certainly a good choice!) and so was the music!

 

[IndigoHomme]

Very Twinkgerton, but at least he knows how to play with historical references

 

[tricotineacetat]

I feel like there’s no reality to this, I don’t get the idea that it translates to a compelling way for men to dress. The pieces don’t come together as a cohesive whole, this is the difference between him and Hedi, whose end product was always crystal clear.

 

[hamburgers]

He won’t last. LET THE GAMES will he last longer than Sabato in Gucci BEGIN!

Delphine insinuated in the recent FT article that they’ll be patient with his initial 5 year contract.

“The next five years is going to be all about quality in the materials and the manufacturing. Quality is key…I’m really excited about what’s next but I think it takes a couple of seasons to understand the vision of a designer,” said Arnault, adding that Anderson was a choice that reflected “long-term thinking”.

 

[Mody]

A good portion of the show reminds me of Christopher Bailey and his heyday at Burberry. I did have high expectation for JWA to push Dior’s ateliers just like how KJ did with his semi coutures. But I guess for a debut under current economy, practicality is nice way to start.

 

[Frederic01]

The "womenswear" is sooooooooooooo bad. LMAO. So dowdy and old-fashioned looking! I was expecting something much more modern and contemporary from him. Because what I am seeing below looks like John Galliano for Dior Pre-Fall / Cruise collection from 2009 styled with JW Anderson for Uniqlo. LOL.


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[tricotineacetat]

Another thing; I don’t think a menswear collection for Dior needs to reference tge Bar Jacket, which is a very effeminate proportion to begin with. I find it a bit funny when people mention a Dior menswear customer, as if Dior ever had an identity of style and a customer with clear expectations other than during the Hedi years.

Menswear is an inherently more pragmatic category than womenswear and I don’t think JWA’s boy really exists other than on paid influencers and queer, male fashion victims.

 

[CincyCritic]

No need for this to be a runway show. At most it was an exercise in styling that would've been much better conveyed in a lookbook... Not sure how I feel about this collection. The clothes are nice, the outfits are nice, but it feels very plain, on the nose senior-in-high-school. Those models were *young* af. Anyone above the age of 19 who wears a lot of these looks is going to look silly.

And the infantilization of young men and little boys continues... the gays can't help it