Dior closes couture show with a bridal gown days after Taylor Swift’s wedding dress

By Lara Owen, Press Association

Days after Taylor Swift married Travis Kelce in a bespoke Dior haute couture wedding gown by Jonathan Anderson, the Co Derry-born designer closed his latest couture show with an ethereal bridal look.

Swift, 36, and her husband, 36, both wore Dior for their wedding ceremony at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Friday, with the French fashion house confirming Anderson designed both looks “in close collaboration” with the newlyweds.

Created in Dior’s ateliers at 30 Avenue Montaigne in Paris, the commission marked Anderson’s first haute couture bridal gown for a major celebrity. Swift completed the look with bespoke Christian Louboutin shoes and Cartier jewellery.

While the wedding gown itself has yet to be publicly revealed, Anderson ended Dior’s autumn/winter 2026/27 haute couture show with a romantic bridal finale – a strapless ivory gown embroidered with delicate floral textures, softly frayed detailing and a sweeping train – which was perhaps a nod to the design Swift wore on her big day.

Northern Irish designer Anderson entered a new era at Dior in 2025 when he became the first creative director since Christian Dior himself to oversee the label’s menswear, womenswear and haute couture collections.

For his second couture outing, Anderson looked to American sculptor Lynda Benglis, whose expressive, free-flowing works informed a collection centred on movement rather than rigid structure.

“What I love about Lynda is that there is something which has got this spontaneous joy, but at the same time it is muscular,” Anderson said before the show. “She is not scared of an idea.

“I find her deeply inspiring and someone who challenges my viewpoint on how I see the form in my own work.”

That philosophy translated into clothes that appeared to shift and transform with every step. Dior even streamed the runway in slow motion, allowing viewers to fully appreciate the way fabrics rippled, folded and caught the light.

Pleating came to the surface as a defining trend. Long V-neck gowns in liquid silks skimmed the body in slinky, relaxed ease, while accordion pleats, concertina folds and tucks created silhouettes that seemed to expand and contract in motion.

Metallic fabrics shimmered throughout the collection in bronze, silver and rose gold, their iridescent finishes amplifying every fold.

Anderson also revisited one of his favourite colours, frog green, using the vivid yellow-toned shade across sculptural dresses, jackets and accessories.

The collection balanced these modern techniques with unmistakable Dior signatures. Peplums and cascading ruffles nodded to Christian Dior’s revolutionary 1947 New Look, while the house’s iconic bow appeared oversized across shoulders, cinching waists or decorating the front of plunging gowns.

Fans became wearable sculptures, attached across bodices before opening dramatically across the torso, while feather trims followed the sweeping lines of bias-cut dresses.

Classic tweeds and checks grounded the collection, from oversized fringed capes to richly textured tailoring, contrasting with the softer fluidity elsewhere.

Flowers remained central to Anderson’s vision for the house. Waterlilies appeared as embroidered embellishments on dresses, jewelled handbags and even shoes, while colourful floral appliques bloomed across powder blue skirt suits and textured jackets. Tasselled necklaces, bracelets and oversized earrings brought bursts of colour to otherwise restrained palettes.

Some garments deliberately retained loose threads and raw-edged finishes, lending couture an unexpected sense of spontaneity and craft, while emerald, royal purple and gold pieces hinted at Eighties opulence, without slipping too far into nostalgia.

Among those watching from the front row was singer Sabrina Carpenter, wearing a sheer white draped midi dress adorned with floral applique.

Actor Priyanka Chopra attended in a vibrant turmeric-yellow petal gown alongside husband Nick Jonas, while Dior ambassador Josh O’Connor paused photographers’ calls to find his parents in the crowd before posing with them.

The actor wore a checked sheer shirt and matching trousers from Dior’s 2027 menswear collection, finished with a loosely tied sequinned black-and-white cravat.