Vanity Fair Exchange: October

For his debut at Dior, Jonathan Anderson worked with prolific textile artist Sheila Hicks to reimagine the house’s epochal Lady Dior bag with texture, utility, movement, and fun. The bags, which were shown draped over shoulders or tucked under arms, their tassel details bouncing down the runway, signal that Anderson’s love of craft and collaboration continue beyond his tenure at Loewe and onto his mantle at Dior. Hicks has long been a font of inspiration for the fashion world, a fact that she’s well aware of. “Every year, there’s one of them,” she once told The New Yorker of designers who cite her. Anderson, whom Hicks describes as an “art enthusiast and collector,” was ultimately drawn to Hicks’s ponytail motif—one she first exhibited in 1969. Over the course of three months, the pair