Salone-style meets Paris fashion as Dior Men unveiled its Summer 2025 collection during Paris Fashion Week. Creative Director Kim Jones, known for blending couture tradition with contemporary collaborations, presented his 60th collection for the iconic French maison.
The show opened with giant ceramic cats lining the runway — a tribute to South African artist Hylton Nel, whose whimsical yet intimate work served as Jones’s creative compass this season. Nel’s hand-drawn scripts and feline motifs echoed throughout the collection: stitched on knits, printed on shirts, and rendered in sculptural beading. The opening look featured a model holding one of Nel’s original feline sculptures, merging art with fashion.
As a long-time collector of Nel’s ceramics, Jones embedded their shared sensibility for storytelling and craft. Tailoring met texture: jackets fastened with hand-moulded ceramic buttons, cloche hats strung with South African-crafted beads by Earth Age, and breezy silhouettes channelling a refined ease.
A palette of butter yellow, sage green and dusty blue softened the sharpness of boxy jackets, wrap-pleated trousers and airy vests. Workwear codes appeared through apron belts and chore coats, reinterpreted with couture precision. The Normandie bag stood out as a highlight — a new classic, designed in ultra-soft Dior Icons grained leather with understated metallic lettering. For this collection, Kim Jones brought in nods to Dior archive womenswear, including asymmetric cape coats and trousers with gathered pleats. Nel’s own words, “Dior for my friends”, appeared as a slogan across knitwear.
P.S. This marked Kim Jones’s final Spring/Summer show — and his penultimate for the maison. An impressive body of work where couture, craft and culture consistently met with elegance and intention. Under his creative direction, the menswear division, once known as Dior Homme, evolved into a global reference point for tailored modernity. His final presentation, for Autumn/Winter 2025–2026, closed a defining chapter. From April 2025, the house welcomes Jonathan Anderson as its new Creative Director. A new chapter begins, after an exceptional legacy.
All images: digital campaign photography by Pieter Hugo.
Runway images by Alessandro Lucioni for Gorunway.com.
All courtesy of Dior Men.
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