Dior Homme Fall/Winter 2026

Jonathan Anderson is climbing fashion’s steepest mountains, and he seems to enjoy the altitude. Less than a year after his debut menswear collection for Dior, the designer returned with a Fall/Winter 2026 show that rejected nostalgia in favour of bold experimentation. Gone were the archival nods to Christian Dior’s tailored heritage. In their place came a dialogue with Paul Poiret, the early twentieth-century designer who revolutionised dressmaking through drape and ease. It was a meeting of opposites — Dior’s sculptural precision against Poiret’s fluid romanticism — that Anderson twisted into a collection brimming with energy, texture and theatre.

The result was a parade of contradictions that somehow held together. Sequined vests paired with denim opened the show, setting a tone of irreverence that carried through in jacquard trousers, cocoon coats and polo shirts trimmed with sparkling epaulettes. Tailoring was turned on its head, quite literally, with shrunken Bar jackets reinterpreted in distressed denim and hourglass cuts that exaggerated the body’s curve. A bronze parka erupted in three-dimensional flowers; shearling cuffs transformed classic coats into wearable sculptures. It was a vision of menswear that resisted categorisation, one part couture fantasy, one part street rebellion.

If Dior has long stood for discipline, Anderson injected a sense of delirium. Fluorescent wigs, wrap skirts and oversized down coats nodded to his predecessors Galliano and Watanabe, but this time the chaos felt entirely his own. Yet beneath the theatrics, the collection remained grounded in commercial logic, with relaxed tweed suits, glittering knits and slouchy jeans ensuring the dream could live beyond the runway. Anderson’s Dior is unpredictable and unafraid to entertain, reminding us that fashion, at its best, is meant to feel alive.