Fashion week: the haute couture touch of Dior Homme<

Embroideries, tulle, pale pink, flowers: for his first collection at Dior Homme, the Briton Kim Jones, a defector from Louis Vuitton, immersed himself in the haute couture archives of the house and presented a men's wardrobe on Saturday in flexibility.

The parade was one of the most anticipated of the Spring-Summer 2019 Fashion Week with that, Thursday, of Virgil Abloh who succeeded him at the head of the men's collections of Vuitton.

The show took place around an impressive sculpture signed by American street artist Kaws, 10 meters high and made of 70,000 flowers, representing Christian Dior and his beloved dog Bobby.

At the foot of this father figure, both imposing and humorous, installed in the courtyard of the Republican Guard in Paris, among the 900 guests took place the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, Karl Lagerfeld, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Victoria Beckham .

Prince Nikolai of Denmark, who has walked for Burberry before, opened the show in a white suit with pale blue striped sleeves. Silhouettes in light colors are light and dare to be transparent. Like this tulle and organza shirt embroidered with feathers. Or pants showing shorts underneath.

Toile de Jouy is one of the recurring motifs in the collection. It was also central in the "cruise" fashion show presented at the end of May by the artistic director of Christian Dior's women's collections, Maria Grazia Chiuri, and recalls the decoration of the first boutique at 30 avenue Montaigne.

In prints or embroideries, floral motifs dot the collection, inspired by a porcelain service by the couturier, a great lover of flowers. Pale pink is one of the key colors in the palette, along with blue, white, navy and gray.

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The codes of the women's wardrobe blend freely into the men's wardrobe: "In 2018 this is no longer a problem," said Kim Jones, interviewed by AFP.

"Wherever you go in the world, just look at the way young people dress, they are very open-minded. It's men's fashion, but fashion masculine of today", continues the designer, who succeeded Kris Van Assche last March, who stayed 11 years at Dior and left for Berluti in the recent game of musical chairs between the claws of LVMH.

The look is fluid and light, the suit jackets, crossed, close with a single button. Or, in a more original way, using a cross strap on the chest.

The cannage motif also punctuates the collection, on bags or on the back of a trench coat.

Another symbol of the house, the bee, has been reinterpreted by Kaws, "the most important artist in the world for the generation of millennials", believes Kim Jones.

His drawings of pop bees come to forage on pants, a black shirt. They are also available as accessories in the collection created by Yoon Ahn, founder of the Ambush brand, recently appointed head of Dior jewelry design. A collection of rings, necklaces, earrings, etc., designed as unisex by this South Korean designer based in Japan.