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Designed by Luca Guadagnino and Stefano Baisi, Jonathan Anderson's set for his Dior womenswear debut hints at a daring new dawn

- HANNAH SILVER

When fashion, film and architecture work together, it's an empowering thing,' says film director Luca Guadagnino, who explored the links between the mediums when designing the show set for Jonathan Anderson's first Dior womenswear collection, which debuted last October.

A collaborative project, it saw him work once again with Anderson and production designer Stefano Baisi (Anderson was the costume designer on Guadagnino's 2024 film Queer).

Anderson's brief for the show was for a standalone space that also acknowledged his respect for Dior's history. Says Guadagnino: 'The way Jonathan works is to involve people dear to him, pushing everybody to get to their limits. It's beautiful to see that the space we created was really real - physical, massive, very architectural. It didn't feel transient.'