Dior Mens Autumn/Winter 2021
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The richly atmospheric paintings of Peter Doig don’t seem the most obvious choice for translation into menswear—yet they have just made the transition from gallery to catwalk as the central inspiration for Dior’s entire Autumn Winter 2021 menswear collection.
In fact, the partnership went much deeper than a few borrowed motifs and colourways. For the past five months Doig had been working closely with Kim Jones, Dior’s artistic director of menswear and their Dior Doig collection, launched online in a filmed show on Friday.
Jones has a reputation for teaming up with contemporary artists. He brought in the Chapman brothers when he was creative director at Louis Vuitton and in 2018 made his Dior debut with a giant flower sculpture by KAWS as the centrepiece for his first show. Since then he’s worked with the sculptor Daniel Arsham and the Ghanaian painter Amoafo Boako—to whom his last menswear collection was dedicated.