Perhaps unsurprising to anyone who’s ever been inside a luxury department store, Dior, predictably, blew the socks off Paris fashion week with their latest collection that is equal parts Mad Men as it is rebellious ballet dancer. And former Esquire Middle East cover star and the first Middle East ambassador for the brand, Ahmed Malek, looked sick in his oversized suit, evoking the image of David Byrne in Stop Making Sense.
Setting that stage at something straight out of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, this futuristic yet refined collection of coats, jackets, and multicoloured socks is everything one would expect from the iconic fashion house.
The Dior Winter 2024-2025 collection, birthed by longstanding Dior creative director Kim Jones, merges the reality of ready-to-wear with the theatricality of couture in a quintessence of sartorial excellence. Inspired by famed soviet ballet dancer and cultural icon, Rudolf Nureyev, the collection is a celebration of the beauty of ballet, paving an opportunity for the director to pay homage to his uncle, Colin Jones, a dancer who also befriended the soviet performer, whom he also photographed.
Permeated with sheer excellence, the looks reinterpret Diro’s archives with virtuosity, reinvented with new volumes, slits, pleats and necklines, Dior’s iconic bar jacket is fashioned into a masculine iteration, with a collection of jumpsuits, wool zippered shorts and second-skin ribbed knits recall Nureyev’s unique, and era-defining style.
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And for those curious about the Soviet icon, check out the clip below of Nureyev performing Swan Lake back in his prime.