Dior Men F/W 2025.26 Paris

[Deleted member 164735]

Was almost too good to be true and felt like someone else created this for him lol. Do we think this is his last one?

 

[Phuel]

^^^Look again. It's got his stealing-from-others-and-making-it-inferior chubby, grubby hands all over it.

It’s absolutely the most refined-looking, adult-curated, and likely the most effort he’s made in a very long time, I’ll give him that.

But it’s also the type of effort where the results instantly remind one of greater designs that have all been presented by stronger and better talents: Sarah Burton, Hedi Slimane, Haide Ackerman, and even Kris Van Assche and Nicolas Andreas Taralis. This is just in a more commercial and accessible palette dressed with a slightly creative Japanese flourishes— and likely inferior in construction and production. I couldn’t care less if he stays or goes, since Dior Men, like Gucci, have been just departments-store fodder with designer price points. And he’s just this bland, constant fixture of the industry that everyone’s used to at this point.

 

[mteb123]

Like other have pointed out here after he has left indeed if this was his swan song which I hope it was… What will be remembered and what impact has his Dior “Men” made?

 

[fenty]

YASSSS A FUNERAL COLLECTION, THANKS FOR NOTHING KIM

 

[j02215]

Oooof, tough crowd here. I quite like the collection from a pure commercial pov. I would take this over LV and Kenzo any day.

 

[Page666]

Too little too late!
Too lazy for too long!
Ciao...

 

[thiago:)]

Honestly, I quite like it (????). I don't find his work appealing or memorable, but there are some key pieces I'd like to wear for sure.

 

[GoldenTribe]

There's too much loosey-goosey stuff and the womenswear tropes are as unappealing as they are innocuous -- nobody is scandalized by a back-slit men's shirt [on a runway] in 2024, but it isn't a particularly useful mainstream proposition, either.

I'm not a fan of most of this, but at the same time I think Kim gets over-criticized here; there are lots of legitimate gripes and criticisms, but Dior Men has produced all sorts of beautiful and interesting pieces during his tenure, if mostly from 2018 through 2022 rather than lately. Look at the 'inside-out' tailoring of 2019, it's a thousand times more elevated and refined than the comparable iterations from Demna, Dsquared and others. Some of the silk sash pieces from 2020 were absolutely beautiful -- others were a bit much.

Dior x Sorayama is one of the few truly cool collabs of recent years (by anybody), better than anything that has ever involved Supreme, for instance. But there have been too many (the less said about Cactus Jack, the better...), and there's no denying the "real-world" Dior men's offering -- in stores etc. -- has deteriorated into overpriced monogram basics under Kim's watch.

 

[NoInvite]

I like this actually

 

[Scotty]

I like the jackets with fur lining. That’s it.

 

[Alquimista]

The Sorayama collab was great indeed ^^

I don't even hate this tbh. But it's so bland. Colour palette puts you to sleep. You can see interesting details in the construction, some good shapes, others very bad (the first pants lol), but the presentation is too sterile to evoke anything stronger than "meh" or "good".

 

[Olaffo]

Well he gave a big hug to Delphine so I assume that was his last collection…

 

[br3ncon1]

I would wear so many pieces from this collection. It's sleek, wearable, though not sure about some of the proportions on the pants.

 

[pradn]

I think the difference now, though, is that there is some clear information on the replacements when before we didn't have any credible information on one.

Sorry, I'm just being skeptical for Dior.
I've been desperately waiting a long time for the two of them (especially the Lady) to exit.
I hope this year, all the rumors & news surrounding this brand really do come true.

 

[jeanclaude]

It feels like a cross-dressing parody of Raf Simons tenure at Dior.

 

[jeremydante]

Kimono-Robe-Coat in look no. 3 is the best item in the collection.
Everything else felt pretty standard. But I liked the collection; but likely because he's been so flat for a while.

Seeing mention of the swan song, @LadyJunon - and it's feeling very much that.

 

[thiago:)]

If he had been awarded a Légion D’honneur the same day he presented the show, would it make sense to be his final collection?

 

[Xone]

 

[GivenchyAddict]

If he had been awarded a Légion D’honneur the same day he presented the show, would it make sense to be his final collection?

They wanted to wrap this sh*t and never have to deal with him.

Last show, last hug to Delphine, last gift and bye. 🤭

 

[Lola701]

Anna is going to decorate everybody.
They don’t even want a ministre to decorate them anymore. They just request it from Anna ahahah!
I’m exhausted for her…