Earlier this week, bright lights, vintage cars, and Hollywood’s glitterati filled up the new wing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in honor of the official unveiling of Dior’s Cruise 2027 collection. The show, marked as Creative Director Jonathan Anderson’s debut cruise spectacle for the historic house since his appointment back in June 2025, showed 75 men’s and women’s looks that echoed elements of the city of angels and the energy of the stars that helped establish Tinseltown for what it’s known for today.

“The House has a longstanding relationship with cinema,” explains Anderson in his show notes—cleverly listed on a classic film script. “Christian Dior designed costumes for Le Lit à Colonnes in 1942, before he founded the House. He received an Oscar nomination in 1955 for his designs for Terminal Station. And in 1950, two films he’d worked on were released: Les Enfants Terribles by Jean-Pierre Melville and Stage Fright, which was one of the main starting points for this collection.”

With details such as the yellow California Poppy, shades of Dior grey echoing film noir, and graphics on pieces designed in collaboration with California-based pop artist Ed Ruscha, Anderson’s love letter to LA exemplifies what the stars of today want to wear— both on-screen and off. To amplify the looks, Creative & Image Director of Christian Dior Makeup, Peter Philips, created beauty looks for the male and female models in the show with a clear agenda: luminosity. “The [creative] process [for the makeup look] is the same, the context is different,” he explains to V. “It always starts with a conversation. Whatever the concept of the show is, we (hair and makeup people) are there to use our skills and creativity to complete the designer’s vision.”

With the notion of radiance for the overall look for the women, notably seen on screen stars of yesteryear such as Grace Kelly or Doris Day, Philips created “a pure, even and luminous complexion” by prepping the face from eye to chin with Dior Les Patches Yeux under-eye patches, followed by the Dior Capture Le Sérum and Soft Crème. For the makeup, an even complexion using Dior Forever Skin Glow and Skin Correct with a touch of radiance fueled by the Dior Backstage Rosy Glow Stick and a mist of Dior Backstage AirFlash Mist finished off the core glam. For select looks, Philips added some standout brilliance to the eye with dazzling crystals lining the lash line, rounded out with eyeshadows from the Diorshow 5 Couleurs eyeshadow palettes in 559 Poncho and 649 Nude Dress.

For the men, Philips borrows the luminosity from the women’s look, utilizing the same products to achieve a cohesive skin look across the roster, while tidying up the brows with Diorshow Brow Styler andOn Set Brow (nothing that could clash with the stellar Philip Treacy headpieces that featured oversized words such as “Star” and “Dior”, which rested on the top of the models’ heads.)

“The natural glowing skin and loose hair blowing in the wind give a feeling of youth and freedom, [while] the reflections of the crystal eyeliners give you magic and sparkly eyes, like being captivated by the silver screen.”

—Peter Philips, Creative & Image Director of Christian Dior Makeup

The final detail to complete the overall look? Standout manicure styles created by nail artist Ama Quashie, which were presented on the women: two bold looks, which featured Dior’s famous “newspaper” print and a “tortoiseshell” effect to match their clutches, alongside a natural version using Dior Vernis 108 Muguet.

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