House-of-Dior-Shinsaibashi

Dior’s 2026 store programme runs three architects in parallel — Sou Fujimoto’s ribbed Shinsaibashi facade in Osaka, Peter Marino’s drapery-lined interiors in New York and Beverly Hills, Alex Chinneck’s 14 knotted-clock window sculptures across both — and the throughline of the year is that Marino, the maison’s architect-of-record since 1997, is now choreographing other people’s gestures inside his own retail architecture. The Dior 2026 stores are not a single building or a single signature; they are a programme that puts a Japanese name-architect on a flagship envelope in Osaka and a British sculptor on the windows of two American boutiques within a week of each other in late May, while keeping every interior under one continuous Marino hand. Read together, the three fronts are the clearest articulation in years of how LVMH’s largest fashion house thinks about retail as architectural patronage rather than as identikit rollout. ...