Fashion designer Kim Jones is leaving luxury group LVMH's Dior Homme brand, the label said on Friday, capping a seven-year tenure in the latest of a series of high profile designer reshuffles as the industry faces its slowest growth in years.
The British designer logged an eventful 7 years helming its men's universe. He orchestrated high-profile collaborations, and gobsmacking show locations and sets.
Kim Jones’s fall 2025 collection for Dior Men was the standout at the menswear shows earlier this month. It fully realized the vision of male elegance the designer had been slowly but confidently building on since his first outing back in 2018,
Just a week ago, Kim Jones marched out onto an ice rink-size runway in Paris, taking a bow at the conclusion of his latest show as the men’s creative director at Dior. That show would be his last. On Friday, Mr. Jones, a British fashion designer who has held that role since 2018, announced he was leaving the brand.
Kim Jones has officially stepped down from his role as the artistic director of Dior Men. Marking an end of an era at Dior, the house announced that after helming the menswear line since 2018, the British designer was the most recent Fall 2025 collection.
Kim Jones is stepping down as creative director of Dior Homme after a seven-year tenure, the house confirmed.
With Kim Jones stepping down from Dior Homme, speculation is mounting that Jonathan Anderson could be his successor.
After a critically and commercially successful tenure, Jones is stepping away from Dior Men after seven years at the house
In Paris last week, Dior men's creative director Kim Jones presented an emotional and meticulous collection. Closing the show was an ornate ballet-slipper pink coat, embroidered with silver swallows and roses, the model blindfolded, gliding towards the light of the cameras.
And he was matter-of-fact as ever as he walked through the collection, a radical break from his recent explorations of casual, streetwear-curious splendor. “I've just done really pure Dior,” he remarked, a center of relative calm in the bustling studio.
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His last show for the house was followed not only by rave reviews but also a knighthood: the British designer was awarded France’s highest distinction, the chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur.