Dior’s Seaside Garden at Paris Fashion Week: Kim Jones’ Spring/Summer 2023 Menswear Collection for the Maison Married Suits with Streetwear – and Destructured Gardening Clothes?

Dior menswear artistic director Kim Jones set up the runway in a makeshift space in central Paris for the show during Men’s Fashion Week. The catwalk was transformed into a lawn of purple, orange and pink flowers, with a blue sky painted panorama and a life-size reproduction of Christian Dior’s pink house in Normandy.

It was faced by a reproduction of a country house once frequented by the Bloomsbury Group, a British collective of writers, intellectuals and artists in the early 20th century that are often cited by Jones as an influence.

The first model kicked off the show in a monochromatic look that married a beige suit with very sporty backpack – illustrating Jones’ style of blending sharp tailoring with streetwear.

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Others followed in pale blue destructured gardening clothes, as well as double-breasted jackets paired with pleated Bermuda shorts or wide-leg pants.

The artwork of Bloomsbury painter Duncan Grant was reproduced on knitted jumpers and technical fabrics.

More for style than sun protection, some models paraded with cannage hats, an openwork grid pattern favoured by Christian Dior that was also found on padded long coats in blue and khaki green.