Anya Taylor-Joy’s Sheer Black Dior Lace Cape Turns Paris Fashion Week Gothic

Anya Taylor-Joy did not do subtle sheer at Dior — she did a floor-length black lace cape that made Paris Fashion Week look like a gothic novella with a pencil-skirt subplot.

On Tuesday, September 29, the Dune / The Queen’s Gambit star hit Christian Dior’s Spring/Summer 2027 runway show in a translucent, poncho-style lace cape with ruffled neckline and trailing sleeves — completely see-through over a high-waisted opaque black pencil skirt. Solid black neck scarf. Oval sunglasses. Pointed court shoes. Husband Malcolm McRae trailing close behind. Soft Scoop raunch — Facebook-safe, still a full front-row screenshot.

W Magazine called it “businesswoman on the bottom and gothic empress on the top.” Marie Claire clocked the office-siren pencil skirt under sheer lace as the controlled naked-dressing flex Anya has made her brand: never full underwear-peekaboo, always a strategic panel or cape. CelebMafia’s gallery locked the Dior logo wall full-length — lace pattern readable, torso silhouette noted, drama intact.

A day earlier she’d worn a gray satin Dior with sheer lace paneling to a Tiffany & M.A.D. dinner — two sheer essays in 24 hours. Paris got the memo. Jane Silverman flags the SS27 front row as peak controlled transparency season.

Scoop’s verdict? Cape: sheer. Skirt: locked. Anya Taylor-Joy just made Dior lace look like a Fashion Week press release.