In Pictures: Dior and Stone Island’s collaboration capsule collection
An unexpected capsule collaboration collection between Dior, headed by its Creative Director Kim Jones, and Stone Island has just launched.
A shared passion for perfection and excellence in processes and clothing shapes, the capsule celebrates the legacy of Christian Dior and that of Massimo Osti, the founder of Stone Island.
In the collection, "the romance, rigor and history of the Parisian haute couture atelier meets that of the northern Italian mastery of machine processes and meticulous functional detailing".
Kim Jones even models the black lambskin aged effect field jacket, which takes inspiration from a 20th century aviator style, featuring a joint Dior and Stone Island badge.
"There is a meeting of monsieur Dior and Massimo Osti’s work for Stone Island in this collection - it is the coming together of ‘obsessives'," said Jones.
"They might have been people from opposite ends of the fashion spectrum – from an haute couture vision to that of military functionality – yet I think they’d recognise something in each other and in what they achieved through clothing.
"Here, in the coming together of contrasting traditions, there’s a new kind of clothing alchemy."
A series of signs and symbols unite the houses in the collection, from the discreet to the more direct.
A ‘double pleat’ tailoring motif traverses the clothing, originating from Dior’s Spring Summer 1952 haute couture collection. At the same time, internal structures are often defined by Stone Island’s characteristic ‘dutch rope’ system for attaching and detaching.
