DIOR Spring/Summer 2020
2019Creative Direction // Set Design + Production // Graphic Design
For Kim Jones’ DIOR Men’s Spring/Summer 2020 collection, the French house partnered with Daniel Arsham to inspire the set design and collection. From the runway show to the individual garments, Arsham’s dystopian, eroded future aesthetic bled through all facets of the collection.
Working with DIOR’s team, along with Villa Eugenie on the set design, I lead creative between Arsham and the respective teams on all aspects of the collection - from the set design to the garments to the invites.
Keeping in line with Arsham’s concepts of time-travel and past, present and future, DIOR brought back the iconic newsprint pattern and updated it for SS20, imagining this Galliano-era pattern in the year 3020, complete with eroded drawings by Arsham. The pattern I made was then applied to B23 sneakers, saddle bags, knit scarves and more.
Inspired by several visits to the extensive DIOR archives in Paris, the invite to the show was intended to reference Christian Dior’s autobiography, Je Suis Couturier, yet updating the design for the year 3020. The accompanying sculpture was then applied to several garments throughout the collection, turning into an icon for the collaboration.
Alongside the collection, Arsham and DIOR worked on several sculptural editions - blending iconic pieces from Christian Dior’s life with Arsham’s own artistic style. Each piece was housed in a collapsible art-handling crate dressed in a repeating monochromatic DIOR oblique patter with bespoke art-handling gloves and a custom pink gradient hourglass.
