The Dior Toujours arrived structured, a tote that held its shape on a table. Jonathan Anderson has let it go soft.
The Toujours Hobo is the new silhouette in Anderson's Winter 2027 collection. It is rounded and pliable, built to fold against the body rather than stand beside it. The Cannage quilting stays, puffed here into padded lozenges across lambskin. A single looped handle rises to a linked gold clasp shaped from the letter D. The bag reached boutiques in July.
Carried by the top handle, it collapses into a soft crescent. Add the removable strap and it rides the shoulder. The interior is roomier than the compact shape suggests, and there is no rigid base to fight, so the whole thing moves with a walk instead of swinging against it.
Cannage, loosened
Anderson keeps the house codes and changes their register. The Cannage that pulls taut across a Lady Dior here puffs outward, pillowed and generous. The D, I, O and R charms hang at the clasp, the same lettering that dangles from his other Dior bags this year. The closure reads as hardware more than jewellery, a pair of linked rings that click the mouth shut.
Colour carries the rest. The small Hobo comes in Cannage lambskin: black, ballet pink, ice blue, a quiet soupir green. The paler shades run in silkier leather, the warmer ones in suede. Prices sit near 3,700 dollars for the small, below the standing Toujours tote it grew out of.
Anderson keeps taking Dior's firmest codes and asking them to relax.
The Splendid EditA year of bags
The Hobo lands in a crowded first year. Anderson has reworked the Lady Dior, drawn the Cigale bag out of a 1952 cocktail gown, turned a Medaillon into a bucket, and tied bows onto flap bags. Accessories have carried much of the early enthusiasm for his Dior, and LVMH pointed to the same leather goods when it reported a return to growth this summer.
The method holds steady. He picks an icon, finds the part of it that can bend, and bends it. The Toujours was already Dior's easier everyday tote. The Hobo takes that ease further, trading the upright shape for one that creases and settles.
The Toujours Hobo is in Dior boutiques and on dior.com now. It looks better half full, carried fast, left to fold. Anderson seems to have designed it for exactly that.
The Dior Toujours Hobo in black Cannage lambskin. Courtesy of Dior