The first Kim Jones’s catwalk for Dior Men screams stylistic break up and whispers new elegance. To point out this contrast the spectacular setting with the Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama’s monumental robot, who lays on delicate cherry flowers. Flowers which we can also find in clothes as prints: this particular “Hanami”, japanese practice of blooming’s observation, seems to remember us the shortness of life and that’s why we are worth daring, mixing clothes and patterns apparently not miscible in order to postpone conventional stylistic limits.
We start with the “armor” logo t-shirt, going on with cherry blossoms shirts mixed with hi-tech figures and the logo bomber jacket “contaminated” by metallic particles. The overcoats, all with ground-breaking cuts, hide light pulls or t-shirts with transparent inserts. The black, always present but never ordinary, here is expressed in coats with details and fastenings that get the attention. In the end a revisited “Yukata” , japanese traditional garment, which gently embraces the bust and then strongly encloses the waist.
Besides the “cyber” accessories, we have to mention the great return of the “Saddle bag”, which was designed by John Galliano, here in masculine version, carried as shoulder bag or as little pochette.
Edited, written and translated by Andrea Siro
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