{"id":30313,"date":"2022-12-04T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T14:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/?post_type=articles&p=30313"},"modified":"2022-12-04T18:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T14:37:32","slug":"dior-menswear-pre-fall-2023-egypt-pyramids","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/dior-menswear-pre-fall-2023-egypt-pyramids\/","title":{"rendered":"Dior And Kim Jones Made History In Front Of The Historical Pyramids Of Giza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Words by Engie Hassan<\/span><\/p>\n

If you were Kim Jones, Dior\u2019s esteemed Artistic Director and spent your childhood growing up in Africa, where would you hold the Pre-Fall 2023 Menswear collection? Here\u2019s a hint, it\u2019s titled \u2018Celestial.\u2019<\/p>\n

If you guessed Egypt then you\u2019d be right. But not just anywhere in Egypt\u2026 Kim Jones\u2019 catwalk was not just near the Sphinx\u2019s head, it was set directly in front of the Great Pyramids. Cool doesn\u2019t even begin to explain what this show brought to the fashion table. Put your fashion-archeologist\u2019s hats on and let\u2019s dig in.<\/p>\n

Kim Jones has been serving as Dior Homme\u2019s Artistic Director since 2018, and while he and Dior have a shared love and tradition for holding Fashion Shows in unique places, their last Pre-Fall Collection was in London in 2021, as COVID put a damper on events of this scale. So, yesterday’s show was less an old tradition and more the start of something entirely different: bringing culture and fashion together in unexpected places.<\/p>\n

Although the show marks Dior\u2019s first in Egypt, the French fashion house\u2019s relationship with the country dates back to 2004. It is when Dior\u2019s then-Creative Director John Galliano took inspiration from his travels to Egypt to create the iconic Spring\/Summer couture collection replete with cultural details. I still remember the collection and how how each look took you back to the ancient times of the Pharaohs.<\/p>\n

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