American Psycho: Does Jonathan Anderson’s New Dior Book Tote Hint at His Next Costuming Gig?

The Dior brand has a long history with cinema – Christian Dior was a cinematic visionary. He designed the costumes of France’s Second Empire for the 1942 film Post lampHe founded his own label in 1946 while working for fashion designer Lucien Lelong. It’s these romantic, structured silhouettes that energize the New Look. In 1955, he was nominated for an Academy Award for costume design terminaland in 1950 he designed for the pre-New Wave scary kids and alfred hitchcock stage fright, He designed this dress for Marlene Dietrich. These were Anderson’s initial inspirations. “Without Dior, there would be no Dietrich!” Golden Age icon Dietrich told Hitchcock when she was negotiating with Warner Bros. executives for her role as the sultry Charlotte Inwood.

“Christian Dior understood how important the idea of ’dream’ was to people after the war,” Anderson points out. From the studio to the parking lot, “it’s all part of the same cross-cultural shift.”

The designer previewed an upcoming film project (project?) in a preview of the resort collection. “What you’re seeing here,” Anderson told Sarah Moore, “is part of what we’re doing in cinemas over the next 12 months. We’re in Hollywood and we’re starting some things, but it’s going to be something bigger that we’re going to do with franchises and movies and other things. So it’s going to be: How do fashion houses work with cinemas? How do cinemas work with fashion houses, and what are the new business models in that?”

So far, Anderson has made all the right moves when it comes to Hollywood’s power play while juggling the role of creative director of Dior and his own eponymous brand. Costume design has become a side project of mine, having designed for my friend and director Luca Guadagnino challenger (2024), Queer (2024), as well as the upcoming film artificial. (Anderson is from Northern Ireland, which has a vibrant film industry and is the filming location for many Hollywood movies and HBO series.)

challenger This is defined by Anderson’s unique take on everyday clothing—Zendaya’s “I TOLD YA” T-shirt sartorially expresses her character’s growing ambitions. queer, At the same time, Anderson paid special attention to historical detail, working to ensure that the costumes were timely and likely to have been found on drug-addicted gay foreigners in 1950s Mexico City.