Virgil Abloh, the visionary founder and CEO of Off-White and menswear designer for Louis Vuitton, died Sunday of cancer, according to a post from his verified Instagram account. There’s also collaboration within the collaboration this season, on a line of shirts hand-painted by George Condo that will be auctioned off to fund scholarships for the next generation of creatives. The graphics seen throughout - on prints, on embroidery, on patches - are a mix of Scott’s drawings and images from the Dior archive. The colour palette features a soothing mix of dull pinks, café browns, dusty greys, creamy whites and pale blues, with pops of black and electric green, across Jones’ signature mix of exquisite tailoring and sportswear-inspired separates, and featured hybrid hats designed by Stephen Jones. Bit by bit, the desert transforms into a rose garden in a nod to Christian Dior’s family home. The models appear in a desert landscape dotted with a buffalo head, giant cacti, roses and mushrooms. So too did the ethos and spirit of America – in his own words, ‘the zest for life and self-confidence’. According to the show notes, Texas was an unexpected destination for the founding couturier and the grand canyons and huge dusty deserts made a lasting impression. The collection draws from the desert landscapes of Texas, a nod to both Scott’s home state and a place house founder Christian Dior visited when he brought his debut collection to the United States in 1947.
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“A conversation – between two friends, two cultures, and two different eras – results in a collection that explores the identities of a groundbreaking modern musician and the heritage of one of the leading Parisian couture houses,” Dior wrote in the show notes.Īccording to a press release announcing the partnership, Cactus Jack x Dior is “the first full Dior collection ever created with a musician for the house.” The Cactus Jack Dior runway Through his Cactus Jack Foundation, founded last year, he partnered with The New School’s Parsons School of Design to establish a fashion program, launching his own scholarship program for historically black colleges and universities. Scott has been close to the brand for a while, modelling the Air Dior capsule collection that the French fashion house developed last year with Jordan Brand. Titled Cactus Jack x Dior - after Scott’s label, Cactus Jack Records - the collection debuted during Paris Fashion Week on Friday. This time it’s Grammy-nominated rapper, songwriter, producer, businessman and designer, Travis Scott. For Dior’s Spring 2022 Menswear collection, Kim Jones continued his creative partnerships that fuse different artistic and cultural influences.
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