Grazia and Vogue weigh in on Anderson’s second Dior haute-couture outing

Jonathan Anderson’s second haute-couture collection for Dior drew a swift second wave of coverage on July 9, with Grazia and Vogue focusing less on celebrity attendance than on how the clothes were built. Grazia said the Fall/Winter 2026-2027 collection treated couture as a process of making, linking the work to American sculptor Lynda Benglis and to fabric manipulated into new forms. Vogue, in a couture-week podcast published the same day, said the collection loosened traditional Dior codes through “knotted, sculptural details.” Dior’s own show notes point in the same direction. The house said the collection responded to Benglis’s work and described a shift from two-dimensional material into three-dimensional form through “knotting, pleating or moulding,” language that closely matches the way Grazia summarized the runway. ### Why did Grazia focus on Lynda Benglis? Grazia on July 9 said Anderson looked “beyond the wardrobe and into the artist’s studio” for his second couture outing at Dior. (graziamagazine.com) The publication said the collection drew on Benglis, an American sculptor known for works that push material into irregular, bodily and often molten-looking forms. Dior’s show page also named Benglis directly. The house said many of the artist’s works begin in flat material and are transformed through knotting, pleating and moulding, then connected that process to couture’s own transformation of fabric into sculptural form when worn. (dior.com) ### What, specifically, did Vogue say changed at Dior? Vogue’s July 9 podcast episode brought together Vogue France editorial director Claire Thompson-Jonville and Vogue Runway chief critic Sarah Mower after the Balenciaga show in Paris. (graziamagazine.com) In the episode description, Vogue said the panel read Anderson’s second Dior couture collection as “a loosening of the house’s codes,” with knotted, sculptural details inspired by Benglis. (dior.com) The same description said those details softened the rigor of the bar suit. That made Vogue’s emphasis slightly different from Grazia’s: Grazia centered the studio process and material experimentation, while Vogue highlighted what those gestures did to one of Dior’s best-known silhouettes. ### How does this fit Anderson’s run at Dior so far? Jonathan Anderson had already made his first haute-couture statement for Dior earlier in 2026, and the July collection was widely identified as his second couture outing for the house. (vogue.com) Grazia’s July 9 piece said the new show expanded the vocabulary introduced in his debut rather than resetting it. Harper’s Bazaar Australia, in separate July coverage, kept attention on the craftsmanship around Anderson’s couture work by publishing a closer look at the Dior bride. (graziamagazine.com) That piece said the images were captured inside the Dior ateliers at 30 Avenue Montaigne in Paris, extending the week’s focus from runway silhouettes to workshop construction. ### Where was the evidence of that atelier focus? (graziamagazine.com) Dior supplied the imagery that accompanied much of the post-show coverage. Grazia’s review ran with Dior photography, and Harper’s Bazaar Australia said its bridal feature drew on an intimate series of photographs made inside the ateliers at 30 Avenue Montaigne. That matters because both strands of July 9 coverage — Grazia’s review and Vogue’s podcast — were built around construction as much as appearance. (harpersbazaar.com.au) In one account, the emphasis was on twisting, pleating, knotting and moulding; in the other, it was on how those same gestures altered Dior’s established codes. ### What should readers watch next? Paris Haute Couture Week programming around Dior is still being supplemented by house material and follow-up editorial coverage. (graziamagazine.com) Dior’s Fall/Winter 2026-2027 couture page remains the central source for show notes and imagery, while Vogue’s July 9 podcast and Harper’s Bazaar Australia’s atelier-based bridal feature provide the clearest next documents in the same cycle. (dior.com)