Flowers and Sparkle: Spring–Summer 2026 Accessories

This summer, be a flower among flowers in an overflowing garden. How can we translate this imperative? Whatever you choose, make sure your foot is held on the shoe either by tiny flowers – a myriad of cyclamens in the Dior version – or by a giant bloom, as in the seductive pink sandals by Dolce & Gabbana.

Flowers will undoubtedly shape the way you move. You will be light and exactly where you want to be, because this is the power of fashion: the mimicry it allows is so powerful that it works where our will alone – the one we voice when we speak – might fail. Let yourself be carried by the flowers you wear and you will embody an endless spring, or the splendour of a garden on a midsummer night.

While Jonathan Anderson was preparing his Spring–Summer 2026 show, one of the most eagerly awaited events at Dior was taking place. For years, people had hoped and dreamed of John Galliano’s return to the maison because – let us say it without beating around the bush – from 1999 to 2011, the Galliano-Dior union was one of the most evocative and successful in fashion history. Every Galliano show for Dior is etched forever in our hearts, to the point that loving Dior today means living in a constant melancholy for the Galliano Era. So John Galliano goes to see Jonathan Anderson, who wants to show him his latest collection, and what does he bring as a gift? A bunch of cyclamens tied with a black ribbon.

Jonathan Anderson, who had been sketching from the shape of Magdalene Odundo’s anthropomorphic vases, is so struck by Galliano’s cyclamens that he finally sees in them a solution for adorning the “vase dresses” in the collection, and above all he recognises in that gesture a suggestion. The cyclamens embody the new Dior DNA: they announce spring, they first appear timidly on the forest floor and then comfortably take over the entire surface; they are a chorus, an explosion of sweetness and colour. Their colour is not uniform, but opens into gradations from pink to violet. Their fragrance is intoxicating. Anderson decides to have boxed cyclamens delivered to the guests at his show and then adds them to all his creations.

There are “cyclamen cloak” dresses, but above all cyclamens that form new, marvellous headpieces: small bunches of cyclamens for Spring–Summer that look like the ear muffs we wear to go skiing in winter. They form round tufts that hover lightly in front of our ears or fall to the left like a cascade brushing the shoulder and the dress. Dare to wear flowers, my friends! And if they are not flowers, let them be leaves. Going to a party is no longer simply walking into a garden; it now means committing to inhabit it authentically. Becoming a flower or a plant is the new way of partying.