Paris Fashion Week continues to be in full swing despite a capricious weather. On this fourth day of presentation of the collections devoted to the trends for next winter, head to the esplanade of the military school for the Dior Men parade of the British creator Kim Jones. An event with a very special flavor for the designer in office since 2018, since a little later in the day, he was made a knight of the Legion of Honor on the hand of Anna Wintour.
A few hours before receiving this distinction, the thinking head of the male collections of Dior had made an appointment to a crowd of guests including Robert Pattinson, Louis Garrel or Kate Moss, in a huge space from which was detached in the darkness , stairs as a podium. To decline this new fall-winter 2025-2026 wardrobe, the Briton looked at Christian Dior’s archives in person. In 1954, the famous designer unveiled line H, a range of dresses whose silhouettes recall the layout of the letter H by standardizing the shoulders, the bust and the hips. “Some graphic and angular elements seemed to us immediately transferable to the world of male fashion,” says Kim Jones about this collection.
Alessandro Lucioni
Alessandro Lucioni
-Alessandro Lucioni
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The idea was therefore to reinterpret these dress codes to imagine a contemporary wardrobe fifty years later. From the first model appeared at the top of the stairs (Ludwig Wilsdorff, a big favorite of Kim Jones), eyes masked by a black banner, the tone was set. Dressed in a long-sleeved turtleneck and a puffy skirt, it was necessary to examine this simple appearance of appearance to understand the creativity and the know-how that make the reputation of the Dior house and its artist director . Because this bottom was none other than a turned and metamorphosed coat in skirt. And everything was indeed a question of transformation in this parade visibly dedicated to the art of haute couture in the male. The iconic bar jacket is for example brought like a costume, a kimono is built like an oversized coat knotted at the waist, or even a overcoat takes the look of a small hand blouse from the workshops of the claw that we would have reviewed and corrected to send it scrolling on the podium.
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