Christian Dior Cruise 2027 — The Honest Review

Jonathan Anderson took Dior to Los Angeles for the first time in the house's history — and the Dior Cruise 2027 collection at LACMA may be his most divisive show yet. Last night against Peter Zumthor's new David Geffen Galleries, Anderson staged his fifth Dior collection in twelve months — the first ever Dior Cruise presented in LA, complete with vintage convertibles, simulated fog, and a soundtrack built around Air's Sexy Boy and Kelly Watch the Stars. In this video I unpack the entire show: the Marlene Dietrich starting point, the Ed Ruscha collaboration, the new bag silhouettes, the front row, the music, and whether the most-anticipated Cruise show of 2026 actually delivers — or whether Anderson has quietly played it safe. The starting point Anderson cites in the show notes — a 1949 Haute Couture jacket worn by Marlene Dietrich in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright — is not a casual Hollywood reference. It is the founding event of Dior's relationship with the American film industry: the moment Dietrich walked into 30 Avenue Montaigne and told Warner Bros. "no Dior, no Dietrich." Layered onto that, Anderson commissioned Ed Ruscha — the most important LA-based artist of the last sixty years — to design a set of archetypal American shirts incorporating elements from his existing artworks. Philip Treacy designed the feathered word-headpieces spelling DIOR, FLOW, and BUZZ. The set was built by Bureau Betak, who have constructed Dior shows since the John Galliano era. The casting