Shown July 7 at the Musée Rodin during Paris Haute Couture Week, Dior's Fall/Winter 2026-27 collection is built as a direct response to American sculptor Lynda Benglis, whose five-decade career has been spent turning flat, unruly materials — latex, wax, metal, paper, mesh — into three-dimensional form through knotting, pleating, and molding. As Dior put it in the show's own notes: "The art of couture enacts a similar shift: fabric is given sculptural form, accentuated when worn." It's a tidy piece of theory, and Anderson spent the entire collection testing whether it holds up on a body in motion.
By Lina Kondik