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Jonathan Anderson’s Dior Cruise 2027, staged inside Peter Zumthor’s still-warm David Geffen Galleries at LACMA on 13 May 2026, is the first Dior cruise show in Los Angeles since Maria Grazia Chiuri’s 2018 collection in the Upper Las Virgenes Canyon and the first ever directed by a creative director who simultaneously runs Dior menswear, womenswear and haute couture. The Jonathan Anderson Dior Cruise debut closed a thirteen-year arc that began at Loewe in September 2013 and routed, in just over twelve months, through three Dior appointments, the dissolution of the Chiuri-Kim Jones two-house structure, and the handover of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize to a new pair of artistic directors at Madrid. ...

Jongjin Park’s Strata of Illusion won the Loewe Craft Prize 2026 at National Gallery Singapore on 12 May with a paradox: a chair-shaped porcelain sculpture made from thousands of sheets of paper, folded and stacked into a block, then fired until the paper burned away and gravity warped the shell. Park, a 44-year-old Assistant Professor at Seoul Women’s University, took the €50,000 main prize and the silver trophy at a ceremony that drew the Loewe Foundation jury — fourteen judges including Deyan Sudjic, Patricia Urquiola, Frida Escobedo, Abraham Thomas and Loewe’s new co-creative directors Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez — to Singapore for the first time in the prize’s ten-year history. Two special mentions of €5,000 each went to Álvaro Catalán de Ocón with the Baba Tree Master Weavers of Ghana for Frafra Tapestry #2 (2024), and to Graziano Visintin for Collier (2025), a set of geometric gold necklaces inlaid with niello. The shape of the answer to “what won the Loewe Craft Prize 2026” is therefore not just a name but a method: paper as a kiln-fugitive substrate, porcelain slip as a skin, gravity as the final hand. ...

The cruise 2026 creative director turnarounds are the season the post-Sarno, post-Kim-Jones, post-Tisci creative resets stop being announcements and start being read commercially. Demna at Gucci, Jonathan Anderson at Dior, Daniel Lee and Joshua Schulman at Burberry, and Matthieu Blazy at Chanel have between them produced the most concentrated wave of artistic-director changes the four flagship houses of European luxury have ever shared in a single calendar year — and the Q1 2026 earnings prints arrived on the same desks as the cruise images. Business of Fashion’s 10 May briefing — “Gucci, Dior, Burberry: A Tale of Three Turnarounds” — named the three explicitly. The fourth, Chanel, is private and unrated; the fifth and sixth, Balenciaga and Versace, sit inside Kering and the Prada Group; and the cohort underneath them — Sarah Burton at Givenchy, Louise Trotter at Bottega Veneta, Duran Lantink at Jean Paul Gaultier and Glenn Martens at Maison Margiela — extends the same logic down the holding-company chart. ...

Eleven major fashion houses debut new creative directors between January 2025 and October 2026, the most concentrated changeover in luxury since Tom Ford left Gucci in April 2004. The fashion designer debuts 2026 wave touches every European holding company that matters — LVMH and Kering on the top of the chart, OTB, Puig and Clarins underneath, and a Prada Group that just spent $1.375 billion on Versace and is currently running it without a creative director at all. The roll call: Matthieu Blazy at Chanel, Jonathan Anderson at Dior, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez at Loewe, Louise Trotter at Bottega Veneta, Demna Gvasalia at Gucci, Pierpaolo Piccioli at Balenciaga, Glenn Martens at Maison Margiela, Simone Bellotti at Jil Sander, Miguel Castro Freitas at Mugler, Duran Lantink at Jean Paul Gaultier, and a Versace seat that opens for Pieter Mulier on 1 July 2026. ...