Jonathan Anderson proves Dior can bend without losing its shape.

Innovation comes with risk, as radical ideas need to be offered while paying respect to those who came before and influenced the decision as a whole; a situation that can easily escalate into the dismissal of certain designers while having others flourish, and history has been filled with both, but in the case of Jonathan Anderson at Dior , it is perfectly executed. It has been exactly 29,000 days since the debut of the first Dior women’s suit back in 1947, and the task that designers for the house will face every year (as they should) is to find a new way to reintroduce it in a relevant way, trying to conquer the space that lives between the tourist and the purist versions of those who love the brand.

That is the task that Jonathan Anderson is challenging right now, and in that show we’ve seen it successfully done, which is going to upset some people, and some will say they don’t understand the hype - both are right, both are wrong, because that moment is just a small part of a larger conversation that is being made at Dior across 10 collections a year. Some might argue whether this is “couture” or not, acceptable for sure, but even couture needs reinvention and revisiting, and in this case Jonathan Anderson did more than what was expected of him.

Haute Couture communicated to a wide range of house fans through contemporary art? Yes please.

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