Dior Sends Wénwán Walnuts to Paris: A Pair Accompanies the Invitations and a Silver Minaudière Takes Their Shape
In Paris on September 29, Dior presented its Spring Summer 2027 womenswear collection by Jonathan Anderson. The house sent a pair of Chinese wénwán walnuts with the show invitations and introduced a silver minaudière in the shape of a walnut, making the Chinese tradition of hand-rolling walnuts a thread running through the Paris show.
LVMH's official show report describes the silver-finish minaudière as a nod to that Chinese tradition: hand-rolling the dried nuts gradually creates a natural patina. The pair of walnuts sent with the invitations, it adds, underscores the essential contribution of nature's beauty to Dior's savoir-faire.
The collection itself is built around nature: presented across a tree-lined basin, with mist lending breath to movement, transparency and floral shapes run through clothes and accessories alike. The ateliers treat air almost as a material in lace, silk mousseline and organza; stripes give way to pleats and opacity slides into transparency, while scarves draped over the shoulder and cascading earrings introduce asymmetry.
Wénwán walnuts are kept as a pair, and a matched pair, close in shape and size, is hard to come by; perfect symmetry is rarer still. That idea fits the season's take on asymmetry in nature: the walnuts are not an exotic ornament but part of the collection's story about nature, time and touch.
GSM's earlier closing report on Paris Fashion Week Spring Summer 2027 covered the Dior collection as a whole without the walnut detail; this story records it separately.
Source: GSM · USA
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：一对麻核桃，即文玩核桃常用的核桃品种。（图：Wikimedia Commons，CC BY 4.0）/ A pair of Ma walnuts, the type commonly used as wénwán walnuts. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)
