How Dior And Alex Chinneck Twist Beverly Hills Into a Surreal Fall 26 Fantasy
Inside the House of Dior Beverly Hills, five playful works continue this dialogue between fashion and the city. Cars, ornamental street lamps and familiar fragments of Los Angeles street life appear gathered into sculptural “bouquets,” tangled, looped and bent into bows that recall ribbons, threads and drapery. In Beverly Hills, these works rework automobiles and lamps into spirals and couture‑style folds, softening hard urban lines into fluid gestures that echo the movement and construction of Dior silhouettes.
The result is a wonderfully spellbinding fantasy that celebrates both the flagship’s first anniversary and the house’s ongoing exploration of architecture, art and clothing as part of the same universe. For Jonathan Anderson’s Autumn/Winter 2026 vision at Dior, which has already played with surreal, built environments on the runway, this collaboration extends that language into the retail world, turning the store itself into a stage where the codes of the city are draped,…
twisted and reimagined. Behind the spectacle is serious craftsmanship. The sculptures were produced with highly skilled artisans using cast iron, glass and meticulously fabricated components that include original and historic pieces for the taxi and the Cadillac, blurring the line between found urban icon and custom art object.
The combination of industrial materials and hand-finished detail mirrors the way Dior blends technical construction with couture finesse, underscoring the house’s commitment to savoir‑faire even in its most playful gestures. The effect is to stop, stare and step closer.
From the street, the installations read as surreal vignettes of Los Angeles life: a car tied into a knot, a street lamp looping into a bow, objects that seem to have softened under pressure or melted into the glass frontage.
Inside, they become part of the customer journey, guiding the eye through the space and setting an offbeat, imaginative tone for discovering the Fall 26 collection. The project does several things at once…
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