I’m Shopping Dior’s Spring 2027 Romance Six Months Early
The collection won’t arrive for months, but its chiffon, florals, and sweeping skirts are surprisingly easy to shop now.
Somewhere between the first wisp of chiffon and the last unapologetically pretty skirt at Dior’s Spring/Summer 2027 show, I decided I’d been dressing far too practically. Suddenly, I don’t want a sensible little outfit. I want to look as though I’ve just emerged from the final chapter of a very expensive period drama—slightly windswept, hopelessly yearning, and wearing something diaphanous enough to suggest I have nowhere particularly urgent to be.
Jonathan Anderson’s latest Dior collection has that effect. For Spring 2027, he took some of the house’s most recognizable codes—the cinched Bar jacket, sweeping circle skirts, careful tailoring—and seemingly slackened their laces. Chiffon rendered traditionally structured silhouettes nearly weightless; tiny, translucent skirts winked beneath softly tailored jackets; ribbons replaced rigidity; and dimensional pastel flowers appeared as though they’d been plucked from some exceptionally well-tended fictional garden. The result was romantic without becoming overemotional, nostalgic without feeling remotely stuck in the past. A modern-day love story, only instead of waiting for a knight in shining armor, I’m waiting for the wardrobe.
And now I want in. Not on the corsets and courtship part, necessarily, but on the wardrobe of the modern romantic heroine: sheer blouses with a little drama at the sleeve, brocade details, skirts that move when you walk, softened tailoring, delicate florals, and dresses that seem destined for an afternoon spent doing something wildly unproductive. Anderson’s Dior woman doesn’t look like she’s playing dress-up in another century. She looks like she borrowed its most romantic ideas, loosened them up, and brought them firmly into the present—which is precisely how I’d like to dress next spring.
