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Dior’s A/W 2026 show, which took place today (3 March 2026) at Paris’ Tuileries Gardens
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The Tuileries Gardens in Paris, first constructed by Catherine de’ Medici in 1564 and later renovated in 1664 by Louis XIV in its formal French style, has long proved fertile ground for the wandering flâneur seeking artistic inspiration and enlightenment – from Édouard Manet to Oscar Wilde; Claude Debussy to Victor Hugo.
And this afternoon, Jonathan Anderson – the Northern Irish designer and creative director of Dior – was the latest creative mind to be seduced by the gardens’ charms, using the Tuileries to stage his A/W 2026 womenswear collection for the Parisian powerhouse. In bright spring sunshine, the show set had been erected around one of the park’s lily-pad strewn ponds (here, those water-lilies were clever imitations); across its centre ran a contemporary imagining of the Tuileries’ tree-lined Grand Allée, a site of promenade since the gardens opened to the public in 1667.
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A first look at the Dior show set
The A/W 2026 Dior show set
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‘A walk through the park becomes a performance,’ said Jonathan Anderson of his A/W 2026 collection for Dior, which was staged in Paris’ Tuileries Garden this afternoon. The show set, built over one of the gardens’ ornamental lily ponds, was a contemporary reimagining of the tree-lined Grande Allée, a traditional site of promenade and gathering. Jack Moss
The Dior invite is a pair of miniature Tuileries chairs
The Dior A/W 2026 show invite, posted on Jonathan Anderson’s Instagram this week
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Despite a handful of smaller independent labels showing yesterday, the Dior show this afternoon – taking place in the historic Tuileries Gardens – marks the definitive start of Paris Fashion Week. It is a moment made all the bigger by the creative director at its helm: the voraciously creative Jonathan Anderson, who will show his sophomore womenswear ready-to-wear collection for the house. After a brilliant couture collection this past January, which referenced the curves of Dame Magdalene Odundo’s ceramics and a posy of cyclamen gifted to him by former Dior creative director John Galliano, expectations are high.
The show invite for this season is an appealing pair of miniature green outdoor chairs, a reproduction of those which are scattered about the Tuileries Gardens – a longtime gathering spot for Parisian locals and tourists alike. ‘I will always feel like a tourist in Paris,’ he told designer and podcaster Bella Freud in a conversation which aired before the show’s start. ‘But sometimes being a tourist is quite good, because you see the thing, you kind of edit.’ Jack Moss