A Closer Look at Dior Spring 2026 Couture Jewelry

Everything you need to know about the Dior spring 2026 couture jewelry, including those portrait miniatures.

Surreal, hulking gemstone bracelets stacked one on top the other (and matching rings), massive metal flower cuffs and 19th century grand tour inspired cameos! Plus: gloriously alien-like ammonites and chunks of glittering pyrite attached to bracelets. The jewelry at the most recent Dior couture show was a detail not to be missed. In fact, it was one of the most exciting parts of the couture spring 2026 season.

Clearly, the influence of antiques deeply informed the accessories and jewelry of the collection. “Couture is a lens through which I can examine the present, reassemble it, and imagine it anew,” creative director Jonathan Anderson wrote in the show notes.

One mouse-shaped minaudière crossed the line between jewelry and purse, so clearly influenced by the sterling silver mice motifs executed during the Victorian era. Creative director Jonathan Anderson’s love of nature and the hyperreal was reinforced with ornamental bouquets of cyclamen and tropical lilies that were worn on the ears, designed by Stephen Jones. These decorative objects mirrored both headpiece and earrings. Those aforementioned eccentric, eclectic bracelets were an amped up versions of the styles we formerly saw for Dior’s spring 2026 ready to wear show. This time, labradorites, azurite, aquamarine, opal and iron octahedrite meteorite were the gemstones of choice. The look of all of the jewels felt true to both the aesthetic of Anderson and the wildly imaginative Victoire de Castellane, Artistic Director of Dior since 1998.

But most impressive from the line-up of Dior spring 2026 couture jewelry were the reworked portrait miniatures–a category that we personally love collecting and wearing with contemporary outfits. For the occasion, Anderson acquired two 18th-century oval miniatures by Rosalba Carriera, a woman Italian Rococo aesthetic artist and one miniature created by the English master painter John Smart, all from The Limner Company, an English portrait miniature dealer. For centuries, these little wearable pieces of art traversed pockets, watch chains, necks and stoles as beautiful, sentimental keepsakes often worn by family members or loved ones. In times when photography didn’t yet exist, these pendants served as both historical documentation and real time nostalgic memory personified. They were incredibly luxurious.

Anderson upcycled the antique portrait miniatures into something entirely new: adding sculptural, brightly enameled metal lily ornaments and long, winding pearl bedecked bows. They were attached to skirts and stoles as brooches. Take it as both a manifestation of antiques working their way into fashion, and a greater longing for archaic sentimentality in the age of the AI apocalypse.