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.
Kim Jones leaves Dior. Kim Jones is exiting his position as Dior's artistic director of men's collections after seven
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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,
The designer, who recently stepped down as artistic director of Fendi, is now a free agent, leaving the industry eager to see his next move.
After the launch of successful vintage drops with Gap, designer and Round Two founder Sean Wotherspoon has been announced as the head of Gap’s new vintage program. Wotherspoon’s new role as Global Vintage Curator will launch the GapVintage program, a globally sourced curation that will be released in a series of seasonal drops throughout the year.
The Dior's men's fashion show happened inside the historic Ecole Militaire with the Eiffel Tower looming above.
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.
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.
With the resignation of Kim Jones, artistic director of its men's collections, Dior is beginning a design renewal that could see Jonathan Anderson take over the brand's creative reins.
The artistic director is stepping down after seven years with the LVMH-owned house and a successor has not been named.