Dior Alps Puts a Flare on the Ski Pant

Dior's DiorAlps Flared Ski Pants come in white technical fabric with a mid rise waist and a leg that opens wide at the ankle, which isn't how most people picture a ski pant. Dior Alps 2026 is Jonathan Anderson's version of the house's winter capsule, billed as high performance skiwear for the piste and après. The flare tells you which half he cares about more.

The collection is out now in selected stores and on Dior.com, fronted by Noor Khan, Alassane Ndao and Finn Thomas.

White Technical Fabric, Cut Wide at the Ankle

The white flare has a sibling. A navy version of the flare adds a zipped hem and integrated gaiters, the snow cuffs that sit over a boot and keep powder out.

The fitted version sits next to it on the rail. It has wool and stretch inside a nylon shell, which is the part a skier actually feels on a cold chair lift.

A flare wants to be seen in a lodge, and it moves the eye down to the boot. On the lift it's extra fabric. Anderson knows that, and he made both. Buy the fitted one to ski. Buy the flare for everything after.

Jonathan Anderson Has Both Halves of the House

Jonathan Anderson is Dior's creative director now, across women's, men's and haute couture. Dior named him to lead Dior Men in April 2025, succeeding Kim Jones, then made him sole creative director in June 2025, with every line answering to one person.

That matters for this capsule more than most. DiorAlps used to have two parents. The women's line debuted for the 2021 and 2022 season under Maria Grazia Chiuri, and it did well enough that Dior brought it back the next winter with a second capsule. On the men's side, Kim Jones built ski pieces with specialists, with jackets and pants made with Descente and snowboards with AK Ski of Switzerland, plus POC.

Dior Alps 2026 has one designer writing the whole mountain wardrobe. It shows in how the pieces talk to each other. The same Dior Oblique sits on a puffer and a beanie, and shearling turns up on both a men's Normandie and a women's Diorly. The winter campaign split across two photographers, Estelle Hanania and Jean Marie Binet on women's and David Sims on men's, also answered to him alone.

Chalets, Skiers and a Lake on the Book Tote

The prints carry the collection. Dior's release names a Dior d'Hiver motif of snowy landscapes, chalets and skiers on bags and knitwear, and Dior Snow lake motifs on the Dior Book Tote, shearling pieces and bag charms. Dior Oblique runs across puffer jackets, coats, face masks, après ski boots, scarves, beanies, hats and gloves.

Then the shearling. The Médaillon Flap Bag and the Diorly come in shearling and suede. For men, the Dior Normandie returns in shearling with pine cone detailing and a thimble motif.

Footwear splits along that line too. The Dior Valto reworks a hiking boot. The Dior Aqua mule, in shearling and calfskin, is for the chalet floor.

That's a lot of product for a ski capsule.

It's also the clearest sign of what Dior Alps is for. The piste pieces are real, the gaiters and the technical blends prove it, but most of the collection lives indoors, in the bag and on the feet by the fire.

Louis Vuitton Started Skiing the Same Winter

LV Ski began in 2021, the winter the DiorAlps women's line arrived. Its new après ski chapter this season goes into plush knits, an Arctic bucket hat, Fairy Tweed Capucines and a shearling trimmed All In BB. Shearling has turned up on Louis Vuitton's ski bags and hats in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

Both houses keep landing on shearling, and for one reason. It reads as mountain without needing to survive a fall. Dior's version just has more of it, spread across two bags, a men's Normandie and a mule, and none of it is going near a slope.

Still, Anderson put the work where a skier would check. The fitted pant has wool and elastane in the blend. The navy flare has gaiters zipped into the hem. Those are the two pieces in Dior Alps 2026 that would make it past the first chair, and the rest of the collection is waiting at the bottom with a shearling Diorly and a pair of Aqua mules.