"He trabajado con artistas y he trabajado con músicos", me dice Kim Jones, director artístico de Dior Men, mientras hace un amplio gesto hacia dos grandes pizarras en las que están pegadas las fotografías de cada uno de los 49 looks de su nueva colección. "Así que pensé que estaría bien trabajar con la literatura esta temporada".
We are in a basement without Holborn Light, two days before the Dior Men Autumn / Winter 2022 -the first one that Jones organizes in his hometown since his two and a half years as a creative director of Alfred Dunhill, a decade ago -a decade ago -And the designer has taken time from his arduous agenda of models to talk to GQ about the inspiration behind the garments.
"I looked at who were doing innovative things more or less at the same time that Monsieur Dior was doing innovative things in the 50s," he says in his engulfed, that he has a touch of the queen, "and the Beat generation was an choiceObvia ".
Jones carries a tight cut sweatshirt in its characteristic black color, it is pican of a popchips pack with salt and vinegar and its hair, splashed with the golden remains of a recent discoloration, it is cut very short.His skin is clear and his appearance is good, surprisingly good for a man who is about to present one of the 25 collections he has designed this year.
In addition to his role in Dior Men, Jones is also an artistic director of the woman's line in Fendi, and is a duo of great performances that keep him very busy.So busy, in fact, that one imagines that characters like Kerouac, Burroughs and others would be stirred in their tombs when they saw their agenda.