“‘The way you made the men look so good, I want the same for the girls’—that was actually the first thing he said to me,” Peter Philips told Vogue backstage, citing the clear direction that Jonathan Anderson gave ahead of his historic first women’s collection for Dior spring 2026 . The new creative director wanted models to “look like the best version of themselves without looking made up.”

And so Philips, the creative and image director of Christian Dior makeup, prepped models for a “calm” makeup look that wouldn’t distract from Anderson’s details—bows of all shapes and sizes, reinvented New Look jackets, and cravats. “I did a new type of nude for JW,” he said with a smile, as he stopped to say hello to Juergen Teller, a familiar backstage face at Dior.

Outside, ushers at the Ja

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