Kim Jones - Designer

[PDFSD]

I truly hope he will take all of it. Somehow I can't (or to be honest, don't want to) see him doing just womenswear. Mens is such a key part of his design identity, even in terms of creative direction, that I'd find it weird to see it go. Unless he's fine just exploring it at JWA...

Friends in Paris told me he's already started spending time at the Dior archives...

Now regarding Kim Jones, I guess he could make sense at Burberry. Although I do wonder where the suits at Burberry stand with the idea of having another well-known creative director following the Daniel Lee debacle. I'm sure Kim would be fine just producing sub-tier outerwear, call his celeb friends for campaigns and call it a day but still... He's very expensive, therefore I wonder if that's what they have in mind. I know way less "important" creative directors have been approached, I wonder if the decision has been made...

He is expensive because he operates as a studio/company when hired meaning he has this company KIM JONES STUDIO LTD (74100 - Specialised design activities)
that does projects with a team at this KJ studio, that was part also the frustration i understood from Dior people that delphine could not stand him for doing other projects via the studio as well as him stepping out dressed in prada all the time after dior and fendi shows and ....as well as finding him let's say in simple terms basic !!!! she prefers more intelligent designers approach like Phoebe and JWA or NG ..

 

[Xone]

him stepping out dressed in prada all the time after dior and fendi shows

I've found that always odd....respect and protocol should not be ignored...even if he is free to dress like a monkey if he wants of course but show some respect for the house you are working for and french and italians pay attention at those things...

 

[visvim2001]

KJ is a notoriously poor dresser and his current figure isn’t helping. It’s like someone pulled a random chap out of a greasy spoon in Hackney or somewhere.

That’s why he would be perfect for Burberry, which mysteriously carries a lot of clout with the Chinese. Get him away from couture where he does a lot of damage and to a commercial house that sells logo-ed up outerwear, checked trainers, that sort of thing. Burberry is the chavs’ LV - both for tasteless people who think they’re ’into fashion’.

 

[tourbillions]

can't wait for that sinking plaid ship to fully sink with this guy. They are so lost with their identity, not knowing whether to go for upscale market or to mass market. Yet here they are wanting to hire someone whose work has 0 identity. And could make any couture pieces look like its from the thrift store.

 

[FashionPower]

I would love to know the amount of days he totally spent in Rome while working for Fendi these 3 years.
He was nowhere to be seen! Showing up once per season feels such a low move for a brand that is so heavily influenced by heritage and local culture.

 

[nationalsalt]

can't wait for that sinking plaid ship to fully sink with this guy. They are so lost with their identity, not knowing whether to go for upscale market or to mass market. Yet here they are wanting to hire someone whose work has 0 identity. And could make any couture pieces look like its from the thrift store.

It's so sad when you remember how great they once were under Christopher Bailey and Angela Ahrendts. Why meddle with a formula that was working?!

 

[Kite]

I would love to know the amount of days he totally spent in Rome while working for Fendi these 3 years.
He was nowhere to be seen! Showing up once per season feels such a low move for a brand that is so heavily influenced by heritage and local culture.

He was in Rome every other week for 4 days.

He is expensive because he operates as a studio/company when hired meaning he has this company KIM JONES STUDIO LTD (74100 - Specialised design activities)
that does projects with a team at this KJ studio, that was part also the frustration i understood from Dior people that delphine could not stand him for doing other projects via the studio as well as him stepping out dressed in prada all the time after dior and fendi shows and ....as well as finding him let's say in simple terms basic !!!! she prefers more intelligent designers approach like Phoebe and JWA or NG ..

DELPHINE PREFERS INTELLEGENT DESIGNERS? She Prefers MONEY, and Famously LOVES Maria Grazia, would allocate Triple the budget for Shows and Destinations to her 'Designs' and didnt give a sh*t about menswear. She doesnt know ANY~THING about fashion, she literally only cares about making profit.

 

[IndigoHomme]

It's so sad when you remember how great they once were under Christopher Bailey and Angela Ahrendts. Why meddle with a formula that was working?!

Angela cemented her future very well with Apple: it all started with the 'shows recorded with iPhone' and she secured her place in the company in Europe. I think Bailey set the tone for modernity in a fashion world that seemed overwhelmed: let's remember that he was a pioneer in Snapchat, see-now buy-now shows and I think that was too much for him.

 

[PDFSD]

He was in Rome every other week for 4 days.


DELPHINE PREFERS INTELLEGENT DESIGNERS? She Prefers MONEY, and Famously LOVES Maria Grazia, would allocate Triple the budget for Shows and Destinations to her 'Designs' and didnt give a sh*t about menswear. She doesnt know ANY~THING about fashion, she literally only cares about making profit.

also true but she likes LVMH brands to be more upscale and aligned to highbrow artsy world of intellectual even if it's for optics .....most ceo´s in fashion dont know much about fashion still haven't met one that did impress me in knowing there sh*t !!!

 

[Kite]

It's so sad when you remember how great they once were under Christopher Bailey and Angela Ahrendts. Why meddle with a formula that was working?!

Sorry Burberry screwed themselves over when they decided to jump on the See-Now-Buy-Now Fad that happened and the merge of Burberry Prorsum and Burberry Brit. They had a series of VERY stupid business decisions.

 

[proseccotabis]

most ceo´s in fashion dont know much about fashion still haven't met one that did impress me in knowing there sh*t !!!

Scarily true lol
Some don’t even know what is happening in the company let alone in fashion HAAAA

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

Just imagine Kim at Dior womenswear The UGG, Claire's, Skechers or Juicy Couture collabs



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[proseccotabis]

Just imagine Kim at Dior womenswear The UGG, Claire's, Skechers or Juicy Couture collabs


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Why would ANYONE want Kim at Dior Women, do people have eyeballs and common sense smh

 

[FashionPower]

I can't with the basic gay fashionistas who want Maria Grazia out.
For them fashion is either Galliano drag queen couture or Raf intellectual pretentiousness.
Do you know rich Karens wanna wear high fashion too and despise artful fashion?

 

[Kimihiro]

I can't with the basic gay fashionistas who want Maria Grazia out.
For them fashion is either Galliano drag queen couture or Raf intellectual pretentiousness.
Do you know rich Karens wanna wear high fashion too and despise artful fashion?

Most are ill-informed at best and likens high fashion to just spectacle. That’s how we get the ✨Jacquemus✨ for Chanel sht and what not.

I’m bored with MGC but I could only imagine that if I were a woman I’d buy her clothes. They’re sensible.

 

[PDFSD]

I can't with the basic gay fashionistas who want Maria Grazia out.
For them fashion is either Galliano drag queen couture or Raf intellectual pretentiousness.
Do you know rich Karens wanna wear high fashion too and despise artful fashion?

i get your point and agree to an extend for her and even the easy to bash VV at Chanel that as long as it works for actual clients who am i to care if she should stay or not ...

but the point with MGC is now the sales are starting to lag and her designs are not even classic anymore there's lots of ugly and odd designs in acc and styling going on that i think clients are starting to get bored of ...if only she got more sharper and more refined i could understand for her to stay longer but you get a sense of fatigue ideas from her shows and collections much like galliano end years at dior where just boring and cheap.

so a refresh to the brand is useful now with the prince of pseudo intellectual pop design JWA, i think JWA will hit both parts the high fashion classism favored by rich clients and hype with shows and ideas for the artful basic gays to love and tik tok and ig about.

JWA loves to be upper class don't be followed by the runways gimmicks, just listen to how he talks and what he says lol