Dance hall

Kris Van Assche’s Dior Homme A/W 2017 show has the Paris fashion set cutting shapes

By Jack Moss
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From raves to mosh pits, Kris Van Assche’s A/W 2017 collection for Dior Homme drew inspiration from a variety of roaring musical settings. Produced by long-time collaborator Etienne Russo and his studio Villa Eugenie, the show resembled a music venue, featuring 6,095 fluttering pendants hanging from the ceiling and a geometrically taped catwalk.

The orange and black set reflected the bold colour scheme of the collection, while the ‘HarDior’ slogan that featured on bucket hats and sleeveless hooded sweatshirts was also emblazoned on the catwalk tape. Constructed over three days, the set also featured nearly 300 strobe lights, which flashed frenetically as the show began.

Jack Moss
Fashion Features Editor

Jack Moss is the Fashion Features Editor at Wallpaper*, joining the team in 2022. Having previously been the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 and 10 Men magazines, he has also contributed to titles including i-D, Dazed, 10 Magazine, Mr Porter’s The Journal and more, while also featuring in Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.

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