BEAUTY: Clothing--Dior Homme

After seven years at Vuitton, Creative Director Kim Jones OBE has been at Dior for five years now. But he is indeed a busy man, taking over Fendi's womenswear collections after the death of Karl Lagerfeld. His influences and sartorial language are studied and varied, so for this SS '24 collection at Paris Fashion Week, he looked back in the Christian Dior archives to past collections. He pulled from previous Dior Creative Directors  Yves Saint Laurent, Gianfranco Ferré, and Marc Bohan, and used a rattan cane pattern from Dior himself. We get here a sense of an old, venerable fashion house...through cuts, Jones invokes the 1950s explosion of fashion with "the new silhouette"  but expressed in menswear. Like many other designers now, we get a sense of elements that might be traditionally feminine applied in a neutral way. The thing that tickles me the most is Jones' bejeweled knitwear tops and jackets inspired by 1950s women's sweater sets which were often embellished with pearls, sequins and gold or silver metallic thread, and worn simply robed over the shoulders and not with arms in the sleeves. The silhouette, cuts, patterns, colors, and presentation absolutely have a charming retro vibe.

Collection aside, please please please do look at the video of the collection to see the incredible staging and wow factor of the startling, opening moments!

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