Dior Takes Its Show on the Road—The Best Backstage Photos From the House’s Resort 2027 Collection at LACMA
Huy Luong photographs all the behind-the-scenes moments from the Dior resort 2027 show.
Reported by Vogue.
Jonathan Anderson doesn't do quiet debuts. For his first-ever cruise collection at Dior, he chose Los Angeles — specifically the gleaming new LACMA building — as his stage, and the result was a love letter to old Hollywood filtered through a very contemporary lens, according to Vogue.
The collection leaned hard into California mythology: Californian poppy dresses, film noir-inflected flannel coats, and shirting developed in collaboration with legendary LA artist Ed Ruscha. The throughline was cinematic nostalgia without the kitsch — think silver screen references that feel like they belong to now, not a costume vault.
Hollywood, Reconstructed
The LACMA moment didn't arrive in a vacuum. Just weeks earlier, Sabrina Carpenter wore a custom Dior gown at the 2026 Met Gala — rhinestoned film strips and all — signaling exactly where Anderson's head was at. The cruise show was the full thesis statement: a house with French bones planting a flag in the city that invented the moving image, with all the glamour and grit that implies.
Backstage photographer Huy Luong captured the pre-runway energy — models, garments, and the controlled chaos that lives in those final minutes before a collection becomes official. That behind-the-scenes footage matters. It's where you see the clothes as clothes rather than spectacle, and where Anderson's tailoring instincts — the drape of a coat, the weight of a poppy-printed skirt — read most clearly.
Resort collections have historically been treated as the fashion calendar's filler — a commercial obligation dressed up as creativity. Anderson is actively dismantling that idea. Choosing LA, collaborating with Ruscha, staging it inside a building that is itself a cultural statement — none of that is accidental. It's a reminder that the best designers treat every collection as an argument worth making.
When a house this storied decides to reinvent what a cruise show can be, you pay attention.
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