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PFW Men’s SS26 was “grounded in real clothes designed for real lives”

Paris Fashion Week Men’s spring/summer 2026, which took place from June 24 to 29, felt optimistic while being “both contemporary and human,” according to Simon Longland, fashion buying director at British luxury department store Harrods. “There was a rare sense of cohesion this season in Paris - designers appeared unusually aligned in their...

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Jonathan Anderson reboots Dior menswear with subtle subversion and commercial savvy

Jonathan Anderson walked on to the Dior stage on Friday with the hardest brief in luxury fashion: reignite a 9.5 billion euro powerhouse whose growth has begun to slow and whose identity, at least on the men’s side, has drifted since the Hedi Slimane era. The 40-year-old Northern Irishman is hardly a novice. LVMH took a minority stake in his JW...

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Classic luxury and streetwear cross paths in Paris with Anderson, Mihara Yasuhiro and Chavarria

Paris - Dior is set to present its new artistic director, Jonathan Anderson, at Paris Fashion Week Men’s this Friday. Anderson, the designer who radically changed the century-old Spanish firm Loewe, now has the responsibility of doing the same with all of the French brand's collection lines. Since Christian Dior founded the powerful brand in...

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69 percent of US consumers still willing to give up data for a better retail experience

Following recent data breaches at Adidas, Dior, and The North Face, consumers are trusting fashion brands less and less when it comes to their personal details. However, a new study, The Trust in CX, by Press Ganey Forsta, has found that the large majority of US consumers are still open and willing to share their data if it would offer them a...

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LVMH appoints Craftsmanship Chief

LVMH is sharpening its focus on the foundations of luxury, craftsmanship and production, with the appointment of Ludovic Pauchard to a newly created executive role: Industrial and Craftsmanship Director. The move signals a decisive evolution in how the world’s largest luxury group views its industrial backbone amid shifting global market...

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Dior offers first look at Jonathan Anderson’s debut collection with Mbappé campaign

Jonathan Anderson’s first collection for the house of Dior is one of the most highly anticipated debuts of the coming fashion season. To give fans a glimpse of what to expect, the French luxury label has tapped footballer Kylian Mbappé for a teaser campaign, hinting at a men's collection rife with tailoring. Anderson, who is set to unveil his...

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LVMH feels strain of luxury slowdown as succession questions loom

Bernard Arnault, the 76-year-old titan behind LVMH, is facing one of the most serious reckonings of his tenure atop the world’s largest luxury group. Against a backdrop of falling demand in China, geopolitical trade friction in the US, and mounting internal complexity, LVMH has seen over 220 billion euros erased from its market value since its...

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In times of crisis, luxury brands turn to the new guard of designers

Matthieu Blazy at Chanel, Jonathan Anderson at Dior and Demna at Gucci: luxury’s leading brands turned to the creativity of relatively low-key designers in their forties to address the economic challenges facing the sector. Following months of speculation and his arrival at Dior Homme, forty-year-old Jonathan Anderson was appointed creative...

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Dior Cruise 2026 Collection

This cruise collection is the autobiographical synthesis of a moment in time. A temporal place where the act of imagination unfolds; in a certain bella confusione* that refers to the title proposed by Ennio Flaiano to Federico Fellini for his film 8 ½ . The scene is set in Rome, whose history is dappled with images from the cinema, theater,...

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Mammoth task for Jonathan Anderson: What awaits the designer at Dior?

Jonathan Anderson’s appointment as artistic director of both menswear and womenswear at Dior may have been long speculated and widely anticipated, but the now-confirmed dual role for the Northern Irish designer is nonetheless historic. With a somewhat understated announcement on Monday, Anderson becomes the first designer to lead all divisions...

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Dior confirms Jonathan Anderson as creative director

Jonathan Anderson has assumed the entire creative direction at Dior. The Northern Irish designer will oversee the women's, men's and haute couture collections, the French fashion house announced on Monday on the social media platform Instagram. He will present his first collection for Dior Men on June 27 during Paris Fashion Week. “It is a great...

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Maria Grazia Chiuri to exit Dior

After months of mounting speculation, Maria Grazia Chiuri is officially stepping down as artistic director of Dior, bringing to a close a near decade tenure marked by bold feminist messaging, high commercial success, and a redefinition of the house’s modern woman. The departure clears the path for the anticipated appointment of Jonathan...