Kim Jones commissioned the South African ceramicist Hylton Nel to make sculptures for his spring/summer 2025 menswear show at Paris fashion weekKim Jones commissioned the South African ceramicist Hylton Nel to make sculptures for his spring/summer 2025 menswear show at Paris fashion weekmenswear designer Kim Jones has gained a reputation as a somewhat prolific collector of art and rare books.
For Dior they appeared to have been put through a supersizing kiln, with six gargantuan sculptures including a nonplussed-looking cat and a nude female torso fused with a feline head, dotted around the vast catwalk. Guests including Brooklyn Beckham, Kate Moss and Robert Pattinson lined up next to them to secure their shot for social media. Nel watched the whole thing unfold from his front-row seat wearing a white shirt dotted with the same sweet dog motif that appeared on the show’s invitation.
Delving into the house’s vast archives, the British designer zoned in on its founder Christian Dior’s era which ran from 1947 to 1957. This time around, Jones’s approach involved “deconstructing womenswear and putting it back together as menswear”.The first look featured a black co-ord including a chore-like jacket adorned with Nel’s dove etchings that were outlined not in ink but in tiny gold beads.
While this wasn’t a couture collection, there were plenty of couture-like techniques. Floral and fauna motifs required 600 hours of hand beading and hand embroidery. These will be important details to entice customers once the pieces land in stores with high price tags. Currently items on its website include cotton T-shirts that retail for £680, while short-sleeve monogrammed shirts hover about the £1,350 mark.
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