Jonathan Anderson Dream T-Shirt

gisele bundchen looking over her glasses and emily blunt with her mouth open, both with expressions of stunned disbelief in a screenshot from the devil wears prada

“Are you wearing the—”

a thin fair skinned model with straight dark hair back wears an off white tshirt style dress in sheer organza i think with intermittent strings of beads, that comes to her mid calf. there is a faintly painted or printed outline in airbrushed rainbow colors of a figure, and the faint letters artf across the chest. the model stands on a black parquet floor with palm fronts behind her, and holds a platinum colored pleated metallic bag. this is from the lynda benglis inspired dior haute couture show, and the figure alluded to on the dress is benglis, posing with a giant double dildo for a work she published in artforum in 1974 as an advertisement. but none of that is really legible in this five-figure made to order garment
Mirage is the name of the dress, Dior Haute Couture F/W 26-27 via Yahoo

“The airbrushed T-shirt version of the 1974 artwork Lynda Benglis ran as a two-page advertisement in Artforum that sparked an editorial protest and eventually led to the founding of October Magazine, printed as an almost unrecognizably ethereal palimpsest on a sheer, beaded, short-sleeved dress in Jonathan Anderson’s Benglis-inspired Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2026-27 collection? Yeah, yeah I am.”

“And are you wearing the—”

boy faced short ginger haired and serious looking jonathan anderson in a light blue shirt with the sleeves rolled up and brown trousers amidst a seated crowd of fashionistas amidst palm fronts sandwiched between black reflective floor and roof planes at the end of the fall winter 2026-2027 haute couture show. a lynda benglis artforum advertisement t-shirt is peeking out from under his very unbuttoned blue shirt, which is the point of this picture and blog post
screenshot detail from the Dior Haute Couture F/W 26-27 show via

“The actual 1974 T-shirt, first issued as an edition of 25, but one of perhaps as many as 50 total, some of them framed, and each with different screenprint and airbrush variations, so it’s peeking out from under my strategically unbuttoned shirt? Yeah, yeah I am.”

Lynda Benglis Artforum Advertisement 50th Anniversary Fact Sheet [pacegallery]
Dior Haute Couture F/W 26-27 via Fashion Feed [youtube]
cf. “The designer couldn’t resist sneaking a particularly ‘if you know, you know’ reference into the collection” — Julia Halperin writing on the Benglis collab in the NYT [nytimes]