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The Guardian
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Dior Paris show is sweet relief for anyone wanting to flex a cooler muscle
Even Anna Wintour can only be in one place at a time. And rather than Paris, where Jonathan Anderson made his Dior debut on Friday, the most powerful person in fashion was in Venice for the Bezos/Sánchez wedding shortly after relinquishing her role as editor-in-chief at American Vogue. But unlike the wedding of the year, Anderson's show proved to be sweet relief for anyone wanting to flex a cooler, chicer muscle. Perched on wooden cubes within the Cour du Dôme des Invalides sat plenty of VIP clout: Daniel Craig, Donatella Versace and Roger Federer. Most of the Arnault family, who own Dior and routinely joust with Jeff Bezos over who has more money, were present. Even Rihanna, pregnant in a Dior pastel waistcoat, was relatively punctual. Anderson is known for his sharp eye and crafty, mercurial taste – few people have shaped the red carpet and ultimately the high street into the hype machine it is today. But Dior is a different challenge. As the first creative director of menswear and womenswear since Christian Dior himself, the designer needs to revamp LVMH's second biggest brand, with estimated revenues far greater than at his former label, Loewe. 'I can't stand here and say I'm not nervous, that it is not petrifying,' he said backstage before the show, wearing his trademark Levi's and a plaid Dior shirt. 'Dior is on billboards. It's on Rihanna. It's transcendent. But this is the starting point – I've been here four months, and the first five shows will show different aspects. Some will contradict; others will be completely radical.' Some designers get critical acclaim, others sell a lot of clothes – a rare few have a talent to do both, but that's the hope with Anderson. Because of tariff wars and a decline in the luxury market, LVMH shares have halved from their 2023 peak. 'Delphine [Arnault] and I, we talked about changing the quality, about upping the game,' Anderson said. Opening the show was a bar jacket in Donegal tweed. More interested in how a look is put together than the clothes themselves, Anderson styled it with a pair of thick cream cargo shorts cut from 15 metres of fabric and layered up like a Viennetta. Knitted vests were a through line, as were ties and neck ruffles, and plenty of colour – greens, pinks and blues. Dior, he says, is a house of colour, in part because it offsets the 'house grey' that features on billboards, Dior clothes labels he redesigned and the Parisian sky. A puffer gilet was circularly cut and placed over a formal shirt, while summer coats and capes came knitted or in pleated bright colours. One was even based on an original Dior shape 'that would have cost the equivalent of a Ferrari', except here it was styled with trainers. There were even jeans – skinny and baggy, in indigo and green. The look was preppy and eccentric, with shades of Loewe, JW Anderson, and even Uniqlo in the puffers, among the classic Dior shapes. On Anderson's original moodboard were Warholian images of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and the socialite Lee Radziwill, alongside classic Dior dresses such as the Delft and Cigale. The idea was to take each look into the present, 'to recontextualise it', he said. He even took his predecessor Maria Grazia Chiuri's book bag totes and put a 'new skin' on them, in the form of Dracula and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. It's these hyperspecific references that give Anderson's work a pleasing temporality, and will no doubt sell well – here at Dior, and whatever high street shop will no doubt copy him. Sign up to Fashion Statement Style, with substance: what's really trending this week, a roundup of the best fashion journalism and your wardrobe dilemmas solved after newsletter promotion Anderson is the latest big name to arrive at an established brand. 'I'm not the only person going into a big house at the moment, but we need to let the dust settle,' he said, adding that he didn't 'want to chop it all down. It's just a continuation.' A great believer in the Jim Jarmusch approach to art – steal, adapt, borrow – he said: 'Ownership in fashion is devastating. Copy [in design] is what you do. Because there will always be someone after you.'
Pink Villa
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
SEVENTEEN's Mingyu, TXT's Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu and Taehyun channel boyish charm in Dior outfits, PICS
The 2025 Menswear Paris Fashion Week is in full swing and K-pop stars could not be left behind. June 27 saw luxury menswear brand Dior open up its doors for some fun and adaptive clothing, with Korean stars from the groups SEVENTEEN and TOMORROW X TOGETHER marking their attendance. Dressed in business casual fits, they graced the event, which also saw attendance from the likes of industry biggies like Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, Mile Phakphum Romsaithong and Apo Nattawin Wattanagitiphat, Josh O'Connor, Li Yunrui, Pharrell Williams, Mia Goth, and Daniel Craig. Mingyu's look for the 2025 Paris Fashion Week Framing his 188 cm (6'2') frame in a monochromatic look, the SEVENTEEN member slipped into a white shirt and white shorts combo accentuated by a stunning brown belt. His footwear matched his fit, as the singer exchanged flirty gazes with fans on the way in. Lightly tousled brown hair resting comfortably on top of his head, Mingyu seems to have taken the theme to heart with a laid-back appearance. TXT attends Dior's 2025 Paris show 4th Generation IT boy group, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, showcased a large spectrum of accessorised looks with bags and jackets adding more drama to their serious expressions on the carpet. Multiple pops of colors could be noted in their fits as the group seems to have assembled with business in mind. Youngest star of the team, Huening Kai, was nowhere to be seen as he was previously noted taking on another overseas event instead of this, carrying on his team's name far and wide. The members were spotted exchanging chatter with 007 himself, opening up to Daniel Craig about their upcoming album and overall being an adorable bunch at the gig. This year's looks from the ready-to-wear Spring-Summer 2026 collection were right on brand and very acceptable, and we're expecting to see them around the blocks soon!
Yahoo
9 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Capes, tailcoats and cravats: Dior gets its teeth into Dracula chic
For the last few days Dior's new creative director Jonathan Anderson has been dropping clues on social media about the contents of his first collection for the fabled French house. And the most eagerly awaited show of Paris Men's Fashion Week Friday certainly didn't disappoint, with a galaxy of stars descending on Les Invalides including "Bond" star Daniel Craig, Robert Pattinson, singer Sabrina Carpenter, tennis legend Roger Federer and K pop stars Mingyu and Beomgyu. A heavily pregnant Rihanna -- for whom Anderson has made several stage costumes -- also arrived fashionably late with her husband ASAP Rocky. Anderson had led fashion fans on a virtual version of Hansel and Gretel in the run up to the show, expertly teasing them with little peeks of what was in store for them when he finally lifted the curtain. They included a Dior Book Tote emblazoned with "Dracula" in blood-red letters in a nod to Dublin writer Bram Stoker. The gothic 19th-century inspiration was clear in the show, with capes, tailcoats and tweeds, waistcoats and Victorian high collars and cravats. - 'Obsessed' - "I've always been obsessed by Dracula," the designer told reporters. "I never realised when I was young that Bram Stoker was Irish and I used to walk past his house without knowing." The show opened with a male take on one of Christian Dior's most iconic dresses, La Cigale from 1952, which was in turn inspired by the decadence of the 18th-century French royal court at the Palace of Versailles. Anderson kept the aristocratic dandy theme going throughout the show, taking in Irish rakes and dashing English dukes, their dickie bows slightly askew after a long night on the tiles. He had posted two rather endearing videos of French football star Killian Mbappe before the show putting on a tie and trying -- and laughingly failing -- to knot a dickie bow. The designer said he saw some of the spirit of Christian Dior in the striker. - Mbappe's 'amazing smile' - "Mbappe has this amazing smile and a kindness to him," Anderson said. "Coming out of the war, the greatest attribute Dior had was empathy. That is quite rare in a couturier... (and yet) after the war he changed everything for everyone and for France." Anderson told reporters before the show that he did not want to throw out the baby with the bathwater after being given unprecedented free rein over the brand. "Some of my heroes, the greatest designers in history, have done Dior, and I don't want to be chopping it all down," he said. Rather he wanted to "decode and recode Dior without discarding all the great designers" who had worked for the label. Indeed, his "Dracula" and "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" Book Totes were a continuation of the "amazing bag" his predecessor Italian Maria Grazia Chiuri had done, he said. The mixing up of clothing codes also had something of the Haitian-American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, whom the designer had called an "epitome of style" in an Instagram post in the run-up to the show. Anderson's arrival at Dior had been flagged for months after he turned around the rather fusty Spanish label Loewe, which is also owned by the French luxury giant LVMH. Just weeks after he was named to head Dior Homme, he was also appointed creative director of the Dior's women's collections and its haute couture. - Changing of the guard - With the luxury sector's once bumper profits plummeting, Anderson's appointment is an attempt to renew the fashion house after nine years under Chiuri. It also comes amid a major changing of the guard, with Belgian Matthieu Blazy, 41, taking over French rivals Chanel and iconic fashion editor Anna Wintour saying Thursday that she was stepping away from American Vogue to move upstairs in its parent group Conde Nast. Anderson, the son of former Irish rugby captain Willie Anderson, said that change was maybe no bad thing. "The fashion industry is like a bonsai that might have gotten too big. We need to purify, to go back to what we like about it, which is making clothes," he told the French daily Le Figaro. Trained at the London School of Fashion, his first big break was landing a job in Prada's marketing department before launching his own brand, JW Anderson, in 2008. "I think he is one of the most gifted talents of his generation," said Alice Feillard, men's buyer at Galeries Lafayette, Europe's biggest department store group. "We saw what he achieved at Loewe -- a really remarkable and brilliant body of work." "There is something childlike yet very intellectual" about his collections, Adrien Communier, fashion editor for GQ France, told AFP. They are "very cheeky, very bold... and really intriguing", he added. mdv-fg/phz
The Guardian
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Dior Paris show is sweet relief for anyone wanting to flex a cooler muscle
Even Anna Wintour can only be in one place at a time. And rather than Paris, where Jonathan Anderson made his Dior debut on Friday, the most powerful person in fashion was in Venice for the Bezos/Sánchez wedding shortly after relinquishing her role as editor-in-chief at American Vogue. And unlike the wedding of the year, Anderson's show proved to be sweet relief for anyone wanting to flex a cooler, chicer muscle. Perched on wooden cubes within the Cour du Dôme Des Invalides sat plenty of VIP clout: Daniel Craig, Donatella Versace and Roger Federer. Most of the Arnault family, who own Dior and routinely joust with Jeff Bezos over who has more money, were present. Even Rihanna, pregnant in a Dior pastel waistcoat, was relatively punctual. Anderson is known for his sharp eye and crafty, mercurial taste – few people have shaped the red carpet and ultimately the high street into the hype machine it is today. But Dior is a different challenge. As the first creative director of menswear and womenswear since Christian Dior himself, the designer needs to revamp LVMH's second biggest brand, with estimated revenues far greater than his former label, Loewe. 'I can't stand here and say I'm not nervous, that it is not petrifying', he said backstage before the show, wearing his trademark Levi's and a plaid Dior shirt. 'Dior is on billboards. It's on Rihanna. It's transcendent. But this is the starting point – I've been here four months, and the first five shows will show different aspects. Some will contradict; others will be completely radical.' Some designers get critical acclaim; others sell a lot of clothes – a rare few have a talent to do both, but that's the hope with Anderson. Because of tariff wars, and a decline in the luxury market, LVMH shares have halved from their 2023 peak. 'Delphine [Arnault] and I, we talked about changing the quality, about upping the game,' Anderson said. Opening the show was a bar jacket designed in Donegal tweed, from Ireland. More interested in how a look is put together than the clothes themselves, he styled it with a pair of thick cream cargo shorts cut from 15 metres of fabric and layered up like a Viennetta. Knitted vests were a through line, as were ties and neck ruffles, and plenty of colour – greens and pinks and blues. Dior, he says, is a house of colour, in part because it offsets the 'house grey' that featured on billboards, Dior clothes labels he redesigned and the Parisian sky. A puffer gilet was circularly cut and placed over a formal shirt, while summer coats and capes came knitted or in pleated bright colours. One was even based on an original Dior shape, 'that would have cost the equivalent of a Ferrari', except here it was styled with trainers. There were even jeans – skinny and baggy, in indigo and green. The look was preppy and eccentric, with shades of Loewe, JW Anderson and even in the puffers, Uniqlo, among the classic Dior shapes. On Anderson's original moodboard were Warholian images of Basquiat and the socialite Lee Radziwill, alongside classic Dior dresses, such as the Delft and Cigale dresses. The idea was to take each look into the present, 'to recontextualise it'. He even took his predecessor Maria Grazia Chiuri's book bag totes and put a 'new skin' on them, in the form of Dracula and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. It's these hyperspecific references that give Anderson's work a pleasing temporality, and will no doubt sell well – here at Dior, and whatever high street shop will no doubt copy him. Sign up to Fashion Statement Style, with substance: what's really trending this week, a roundup of the best fashion journalism and your wardrobe dilemmas solved after newsletter promotion Anderson is the latest big name to arrive at an established brand. 'I'm not the only person going into a big house at the moment, but we need to let the dust settle,' he said, adding that he didn't 'want to chop it all down. It's just a continuation.' A great believer in the Jim Jarmusch approach to art – steal, adapt, borrow – he said: 'Ownership in fashion is devastating. Copy [in design] is what you do. Because there will always be someone after you.'
Daily Mail
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Daniel Craig looks stylish in a tweed blazer as he joins South Korean band Tomorrow X Together at Dior Homme show during Paris Fashion Week
Daniel Craig looked stylish as he joined South Korean band Tomorrow X Together at the Dior Homme show during Paris Fashion Week on Friday. The actor, 57, wore an oversized tweed blazer with a blue striped shirt and a red tie layered underneath. He completed his outfit with a pair of dark jeans and dressed his look down with chunky white trainers. Daniel posed for photos at the brand's Spring-Summer 2026 collection by Tomorrow X Together. The band, formed of Yeonjun, Soobin, Beomgyu, Taehyun, and HueningKai, released their first single via Big Hit Music in 2019. Daniel, who finished his time as James Bond with the 2021 film No Time To Die, is looking world's away from 007 with his much longer hair. The actor - who was a widely popular Bond - enjoyed a five-film stint with the franchise, beginning with the 2006 movie Casino Royale. During his days as 007 he sported a more rugged look than he does now, with Craig often seen opting for a longer hairstyle at events post-Bond. Fans of the franchise are speculating over who will replace Daniel as the spy. The iconic role remains open to offers some four years after Daniel ditched the tuxedo, hung up the Walther PP and handed over the keys to his beloved Aston Martin. And with Amazon having bought the rights to Britain's longest running film franchise - the next film will be its 26th - the debate around who will seize the baton and become Bond number seven remains hotter than ever. To date, the likes of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Henry Cavill, Regé-Jean Page, Richard Madden and Idris Elba have been touted as potential candidates. Amazon recently took over 'creative control' of the much-loved franchise and are said to be fast-tracking the new film, with Hollywood producers David Heyman and Amy Pascal hired to usher in a new era. Bookmaker William Hill sees Aaron Taylor-Johnson the most likely to take over at odds of 11/8, while Theo James sits at 7/2. During his days as 007 he sported a more rugged look than he does now, with Craig often seen opting for a longer hairstyle at events post-Bond (pictured in 2012 Bond movie, Skyfall) Right behind Aaron Pierre and Henry Cavill is Happy Valley actor James Norton, and chasing his tail is Slow Horses actor Jack Lowden. Earlier this month, betting companies released their odds for the next James Bond villain - with one unexpected household name topping the list. The favourite was then none other than Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy, who sits at the top of OLBG's odds at 9/2. The Irish actor - best known for playing Thomas Shelby in the hit BBC show - had previously been touted for the part of Bond but played down speculation, telling Deadline: 'I think I'm a bit old for that.' Also in the running to play the Bond bad guy are American actor Paul Giamatti (11/2), The Boogeyman star David Dastmalchian (13/2), and unlikely contender Zendaya (7/1). The bookmaker sees Aaron Taylor-Johnson (left in August) the most likely to take over at odds of 11/8, while Theo James (right in January 2024) sits at 7/2 Despite 'usually playing the good guy' in her previous roles, the female actress told Elle in 2023 that she's ready to enter her villainous era. 'I would love to play a villain of sorts,' the 28-year-old said. 'Tap into the evil, supervillain vibes. Whatever that manifests in, I don't think necessarily in a superhero sense, I just mean in like an emotional sense. 'I feel like I usually play the good guy, so I'd like to play the bad guy.' Amazon bosses are currently said to be considering locations in which to set the much-anticipated new film, which experts predicted is likely to be released at the end of next year or in 2027. Due to a filming ban being imposed in Central London next year, new locations are reportedly being considered - with Liverpool a frontrunner, according to The Sun. Even Zendaya has emerged as a shock contender after expressing her want to be a villain during an interview (Pictured May 2025) An insider told the publication: 'This will no doubt irk Bond purists who already fear Amazon taking over the 007 franchise may lead to them making big changes. 'But Liverpool is a well-known alternative to London for film-makers. 'It has appeared in everything from The Batman to Captain America and Harry Potter movies, doubling up as international cities.' The source added that it doesn't necessarily mean the story will be set in Liverpool - though eagle-eyed Merseysiders will no doubt spot their city centre in the background.
