Behind the set: Dior A/W 2019 menswear

last updated 10 August 2022

Movement, energy, speed: the fashion industry is renowned for its sense of pace. Since his appointment as menswear artistic director of Dior, Kim Jones has been sending the Parisian brand into the future, combining haute couture techniques, artistic collaborations and a sharp attention to cut, into a modern and ultra luxurious take on menswear. It’s fitting, then, that for his third runway show for the house (previous set ups have boasted a 10-metre tall floral effigy or Monsieur Dior created in collaboration with Kaws, and a towering female cyborg dreamt up with Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama), Jones erected a 72-metre long conveyor belt inside a purpose built black block, with models statue-like projecting through the space. Jones was inspired by the still positions of models traditionally poised inside couture salons, and his set up simultaneously nodded to the glorious past of the house, and the flourishing movement towards its present.

Read the Dior Men A/W19 Paris Fashion Week Men’s show report here

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.