Next month, Dior men’s artistic director Kim Jones will celebrate three years at the French fashion house. His time at Dior has been marked by a slew of modern art collaborators, including the likes of Daniel Arsham, Amoako Boafo, KAWS, Kenny Scharf, and Peter Doig. However, for the Dior Menswear Resort 2022 collection, Jones turns to classic house codes for inspiration.
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Drawing from the Dior archives, Jones looked to the 1960s style archetypes of French fashion designer Marc Bohan, who held the role of creative director at Dior for 30 years, succeeding Yves Saint Laurent. Likely Bohan’s most well-known contribution to the French fashion house, Jones modifies the Dior Oblique pattern, translating a subtle iteration across the collection. Meanwhile, the heart-shaped ‘CD’ logo gets a modern upgrade, appearing on shirts and jackets in custom embroidery. Elsewhere, the vintage ‘Christian Dior Atelier’ logo pays homage to the house’s couturiers, lending heritage appeal to baseball shirts and button-up varsity jackets.
“Obviously, the customer will recognize and be comfortable in the Dior shapes, but we wanted to play with proportions a bit and look at a way of making tailoring feel less formal, but still really relevant,” Jones said in a statement to WWD. He went on to add that “the color palette was really a compilation of all our favorite colors we used over the last three years — mixing that together and bringing it forward so that we could then move into the next step of what we do at Dior. I think it’s good to reinvent what you do.”
Indeed, the Dior Menswear Resort 2022 collection takes on an inherently casual approach to classic tailoring. Flowy trousers cut wide around the calves are nonchalantly paired with chunky, retro sneakers, with boxy, tailored outerwear drawing the look together. Novelty pops up in the form of patterned nylon windbreakers that compress into Saddle bags, while the polished colour palette of navy, forest green, chocolate brown, and pale pink hues does its job of selecting from the best of Jones’ creations.
Words by Esmé Duggan
