{"id":2030250,"date":"2026-07-06T23:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2030250"},"modified":"2026-07-06T23:15:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T20:15:52","slug":"jonathan-anderson-takes-inspiration-from-lynda-benglis-for-dior-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2030250","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Anderson Takes Inspiration from Lynda Benglis for Dior Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tDesigner Jonathan Anderson has once again taken inspiration from the work of sculptor Lynda Benglis for his latest fashion show.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe creative director of Dior since 2025, Anderson presented the house\u2019s Fall Winter 2026-27 Haute Couture Show at the Mus\u00e9e Rodin in Paris on Monday, marking his second haute couture collection for Dior.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe collection responds, in the language of couture, to the work of American sculptor Lynda Benglis,\u201d a description published on Dior\u2019s website reads. \u201cMany of the artist\u2019s works begin in two-dimensional materials that are transformed, through knotting, pleating or moulding, into three. The art of couture enacts a similar shift: fabric is given sculptural form, accentuated when worn.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Benglis-inspired pleat work is visible in several garments in the collection, like a gray shawl, a bronze-and-gold top, and a silver gown that all employ the knotting to create an off-kilter bow. Several models also wore headpieces that resemble some of Benglis\u2019s sculptures. Benglis also collaborated on some of the handbags featured in the show, according to WWD<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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A detail of the 24th look of Dior\u2019s Haute Couture Fall\/Winter 2026-27 collection, which translates Lynda Benglis\u2019s Zanzidae, From the Peacock Series<\/em> (1979) into a garment.<\/span>Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tAnother point of inspiration is \u201cBenglis\u2019s longstanding relationship with Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India,\u201d per Dior. That city and the birds she saw there informed the artist\u2019s \u201cPeacock\u201d series from the 1970s, which feature \u201cbrightly-coloured floral and beaded embellishments.\u201d The collection\u2019s 24th and 30th looks, in which a large fan decorated with such embellishments, are almost a one-to-one translation of Benglis\u2019s Zanzidae, From the Peacock Series<\/em> (1979).<\/p>\n

\n\tAnderson last took inspiration from Benglis three years ago for Loewe\u2019s Spring\/Summer 2024 show. In addition to tapping her to make jewelry for that collection, Anderson also displayed several of her sculptures as part of the runway show.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to her notorious advertisement for a gallery show in a 1974 issue of Artforum<\/em>, showing her nude brandishing a dildo, Benglis is known for her pioneering approach to sculpture during the late 1960s and \u201970s. Her most famous body of work involved her pouring pigmented latex directly onto the floor, and later onto walls and into corners, to create sculptures marked by their heft and shape. In the \u201970s, Benglis would begin to make wall-hung sculptures that feature taut knots that she would then paint. She once described them as \u201cdecadently excessive\u201d to her dealer at the time, Paula Cooper. <\/p>\n

\n\tBenglis\u2019s most recent major exhibition paired her work with that of Alberto Giacometti, which ran January to May at the Barbican Centre in London.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s a genius, and I think there\u2019s something about how she looks at form where it nearly becomes in a way muscular,\u201d Anderson told WWD<\/em> of Benglis. \u201cShe was well before anyone\u2019s time, and it\u2019s only in the last 10 years that people have started to realize what she had done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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