Extra! Extra! Newspaper Nails Are the Season’s Coolest Manicure Idea
At Jonathan Anderson’s Dior Cruise 2027 show, nail artist Ama Quashie brought the house’s beloved newspaper print to the models’ manicures
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
There is something quietly genius about reviving a print that already lives rent-free in the cultural imagination. The Dior newspaper motif — first introduced by John Galliano in 2000 and permanently lodged in public consciousness as the "Carrie Bradshaw newspaper dress" from Sex and the City's third season — made its latest comeback not on a gown or a coat, but somewhere far more unexpected: the fingertips.
For his debut cruise collection shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jonathan Anderson reached deep into the house archives, according to Harper's Bazaar. The print reappeared on a handbag, yes — but the real moment belonged to nail artist Ama Quashie, who translated the motif into two distinct manicure looks for Cruise 2027. Some models wore a sheer, milky-white base layered with black Gothic script lifted straight from a newspaper page. Others wore an amber tortoiseshell variation that Quashie herself described as "a dream to design." Both were executed as press-ons, applied backstage for speed and precision.
Beauty at Dior Is Getting Interesting Again
This isn't happening in isolation. Under Anderson, the house's beauty direction has been quietly sharpening. At couture last year, hairstylist Guido Palau constructed pink veils of hair that read more art installation than accessory. For cruise 2027, Dior makeup's creative and image director Peter Philips sent models out with crystal-edged liner and intentionally blurry lips — beauty that feels considered rather than decorative. The newspaper nails mark the first significant nail art statement from Dior in years, and it lands with the weight of that absence.
On Instagram, Quashie noted: "When Jonathan Anderson and Benjamin Bruno promise you a nail, they deliver." That kind of creative follow-through is rare on the runway, where nail art often functions as afterthought. Here it operates as punctuation — the final, deliberate mark on a collection built around the tension between archive and reinvention.
When a house this storied decides nails are worth the conceptual investment, the rest of the beauty world tends to take notes.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
