Couture / Collection lens
Dior’s garden is a way of thinking
Jonathan Anderson’s couture debut connects botanical forms, collecting and the possibilities of handwork.
Runway notebooks / Paris
Paris,
in focus.
Couture handwork, botanical ideas and experiments in form. Read our selected Dior, Loewe, Schiaparelli and Saint Laurent notes.
Designers / The detail
Loewe: when the surface becomes the story
Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez put playful making at the centre of their second Loewe collection.
Couture / The essay
Schiaparelli and the pleasure of excess
Daniel Roseberry’s The Agony and the Ecstasy offers a useful reminder: fashion can be an experience before it is an outfit.
Designers / Viewing guide
Why the full look still matters
Use Saint Laurent’s official Winter 26 collection to practise reading a silhouette from head to toe.
Couture / Archive lesson
Read a couture silhouette from the outside in
A Dior couture photograph from Paris offers a different way to study volume and proportion.
From the photographic archive
A moment worth revisiting.
Chanel Iman on the Christian Dior Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2009–10 runway, Paris, 6 July 2009. Archive photograph.
This archival image provides historical context. Current collection coverage is labelled separately in the stories above.