For Dior’s Spring–Summer 2026 Ready-to-Wear show, the house invited us into a new chapter one where Jonathan Anderson’s debut collection found its counterpoint in the serene artistry of Peter Philips. Beauty, here, was not ornament but aura: a study in radiance that whispered rather than declared.
Philips, Dior’s Creative and Image Director for Makeup, designed a look that distilled light into skin, movement, and breath. “The intention was to accentuate and enhance the natural beauty of each face,” he explained. “The makeup plays with light, reflecting translucent, fresh, even skin, elevated by nude shades that blend in to deliver glow in a contemporary spirit.”
The Complexion: A Soft Prism
Skin, ever the Dior canvas, was sculpted into luminosity. Models arrived bare-faced, and the ritual began with Dior Capture Le Sérum and Dior Les Patchs Yeux, cool silk against morning skin. Over this, Dior Forever Skin Glow poured a veil of radiance, creating that impossible equilibrium of coverage and air. Cheekbones blushed not in declaration but in breath Dior Backstage Rosy Glow Stick in Berry and Rosewood lending a translucence that read like the memory of summer. Imperfections dissolved with Dior Forever Skin Correct, a finishing gesture as invisible as it was precise.
The Eyes: Shadows of Restraint
Philips turned to the Diorshow 5 Couleurs palette in Poncho, selecting pale, soft tone colours that seemed to hover rather than settle. Brows were tended with an almost monastic care: tidied, not tamed, enhanced with Diorshow On Set Brow and Brow Styler, but always left human, always alive.
The Lips: Nude Reimagined
There was nothing ornamental here. The lips held a balm-like glow with Dior Addict Lip Glow Butter in Toffee, the shade of warmed sugar, the gloss of intimacy.
The Hands: The Final Gesture
The Dior woman’s hands often overlooked in runway narratives became their own quiet statement. Prepped with Dior Le Baume, nails bore Dior Vernis in Muguet, a porcelain-white that felt less like polish and more like a signature.
The Hair: The Duality of Ease and Order
Hair was parted with precision, then allowed to fall loose, or else drawn back with the kind of elegance that makes absence feel intentional. The duality undone and disciplined mirrored Anderson’s clothes, a dialogue between structure and ease.
The Dior SS26 Woman
Together, Anderson’s garments and Philips’ makeup articulated a Dior woman who is not afraid of silence. She walks in light, not under it. Her glow is not a veneer, but an extension of her being luminous, lived-in, contemporary.
This was not beauty as spectacle but as atmosphere, not as mask but as emanation. Dior SS26 was a reminder that the most radical thing a woman can wear is her own unadorned glow, sharpened only by the quiet intelligence of craftsmanship.
