“Yeah, It Blew My Mind”—Taylor Russell on Dior’s Cruise 2027 Show

Reported by Vogue.

Taylor Russell didn't just attend Dior's cruise 2027 show at LACMA — she experienced it the way only a true insider can. The actress and Dior ambassador has been in Jonathan Anderson's orbit long enough to have walked the runway for him during his Loewe era, and that history shows in how she talks about him. "My friendship with Jonathan is a really invigorating and exciting one because I constantly get to watch him build new worlds," she told Vogue. Last Tuesday night in Los Angeles, that world-building reached a new scale.

Hollywood, But Make It Dior

Anderson staged his cruise 2027 production at LACMA with the kind of maximalism the setting demands — big, glamorous, and unabashedly cinematic. Russell, this time watching from the front row rather than walking it, was visibly floored. "If you're going to be here in Hollywood doing your runway, it should be big and exciting — and it was definitely that," she said, according to Vogue. "Yeah, it blew my mind." The show delivered on every expectation: sparkle, spectacle, and the kind of considered construction Anderson is known for threading through even the most theatrical collections.

Russell arrived dressed for exactly that energy — a fall 2026 Dior look, a slinky black pleated dress trimmed in ribbon and fringe that she described plainly and perfectly: "I feel quite sexy in it." No over-explanation needed. The dress did its job; so did she.

Already mentally shopping the new collection, Russell called out leather pants paired with a butter-yellow top as a standout, alongside the floral-embellished sparkle dresses that closed the show. She sent what she described as "many, many, many, many favorites" directly to her stylist — the kind of shopping behavior most of us replicate via screenshot folders we'll never act on, except Russell will absolutely be wearing these pieces before they hit retail.

There's something worth noting in the dynamic she describes with Anderson — not the transactional ambassador relationship brands often dress up as friendship, but a genuine creative kinship that's produced real runway moments and clearly informs how she engages with the work. When your connection to a designer runs that deep, wearing the clothes stops being a job and starts being a conversation.

The best front-row guests aren't the most famous ones — they're the ones actually paying attention.

Read the original at Vogue.