Jeff Goldblum’s usually a very busy man. But on Wednesday morning, he was keeping things chill. Ahead of the Dior Cruise 2027 show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the American multi-hyphenate was getting ready at home. Not in a hotel suite. Not in the back of a chauffeured car somewhere on Sunset Boulevard. He was wandering around his own wardrobe in his own house, deciding which trousers speak to him spiritually that day.
“I’m at home in Los Angeles,” he says over the phone. “I’m getting ready to go. Andrew Vottero, my stylist, is here, who’s working with Dior. We couldn’t be more excited. We’re floating on air.”
Music, unsurprisingly, was already playing softly in the background while he got ready. Specifically, Night Blooms, his upcoming jazz album that’s set to land in less than a month’s time. And because Goldblum apparently lives inside the world’s coolest dinner party seating plan, the guest list is totally ridiculous. “We’ve got Dodie, Melody Gardot, Charlie Puth, Scarlett Johansson, Cynthia Erivo, and Ariana Grande all on the album,” he says sounding genuinely thrilled about it. “And we’ve been playing all over the place. We’re coming to the UK, as a matter of fact – Wolverhampton, a bunch of other spots – and then we’re playing the Royal Albert Hall with the 57-piece orchestra that we’ve just added.”
A 57-piece orchestra. Casual.
Then there’s Dior. Or more specifically: Jonathan Anderson’s Dior. The show happened to be the new creative director’s first-ever Cruise collection for the house, which meant the fashion world treated it with roughly the same level of anticipation as a Marvel premiere.
Collaborating with the maison on something like this is “just great,” says Goldblum, who calls Anderson an “artistic genius” who is “at the height of his powers.”
You can tell the Wicked star’s genuinely into the clothes too. Not in the usual ‘my stylist picked it out and now I’m saying words about craftsmanship’ kinda way. He’s someone who actually enjoys getting lost in fabrics and buttons and weird little details.
Wednesday’s look had “a little western theme,” complete with double denim and a Dior belt buckle that he kept circling back to throughout our call. In fact, when asked about his favourite part of the entire fit, he immediately launched into a detailed description of the buckle itself. (“It’s a real work of art,” he says. “It’s got a kind of silvery, kind of oval thing with a ribbon silver on it, with the Dior logo on it. The leather also matches these brown cap-toed shoes that they’ve lent me for tonight.”)
