Also coinciding with Art Basel Miami, Dior will showcase its latest RIMOWA collaboration in the city’s Design District.Īdblock Adblock Plus Adblocker Ultimate Ghostery uBlock Origin Others
I just really get the right feel.”ĭior’s Pre-Fall 2020 menswear collection will be shown on December 3 across from the new Rubell Museum. I almost feel like I’m handing the wand off to the young crowd, Kim being the team captain, and he’s a lover of the game, he’s knowledgeable, he’s a student of our culture. “I’ve said ‘no’ to a lot of things, and I was just waiting for the right one, and this just feels really good in that respect.
“It’s been interesting for me to see the full circle and to watch the last 20 years as an outsider,” said Stussy. When Dior and Stussy’s collaboration goes on sale in 2020, it’ll mark nearly 40 years of Stussy’s Californian clothing brand. “I have zero interest in going and printing some $40 USD T-shirts, but to do this was really an eye opener.” “That’s what intrigued me, is when he started talking about taking my kind of iconic art work and putting it into these couture methods,” Stussy recalled. Elsewhere, the team outsourced a unique Japanese printing process to create heavily manipulated marble-like patterns. That’s why I wanted to do it with him: he’s made an iconic image with his hand,” said Jones.ĭrawing from the bold colors of Miami’s historic Art Deco architecture, Jones and his team colored in the black-and-white artwork that Stussy submitted for Pre-Fall 2020, with select items utilizing labor-intensive beading that demanded 2,600 hours to complete.
If you can work that line like that, and it’s that memorable, it’s like an artist. “For me to work with someone like Shawn is a real honor. Jones first discovered Stussy’s brand as a 14-year-old, buying directly from a family friend who worked at Michael Kopelman’s influential Gimme 5 distribution label.
I’ve got boxes of it,” Jones explains, referencing his notable archive of original Stüssy garments. It was something I was really, really, really obsessed by. “I used to wear it head-to-toe all the time in my teens.
Plus, it’s a coming home for Jones, of sorts, who’s realizing a teenage fantasy. The Stussy partnership is hardly a departure for Dior, however, considering that Stussy’s distinctive penmanship gave Stüssy its world-famous logo Stussy’s scrawl is so recognizable that it even spawned a typeface that Stüssy uses to this day. Jones tenure at Dior has drawn attention for his expansive partnerships with artists that bridge the worlds of youth culture and fine art, including KAWS, Raymond Pettibon and Daniel Arsham. And if I’m going to come out for a last hurrah, why not with Dior? That’s the way I look at it. “I was just in a good place in my adventure, and he’s in a good place, and the stars just seemed to kind of line up. “There wasn’t much luring,” Stussy told WWD in Paris. Though the streetwear pioneer is in no rush to return to the business full-time - to this day, he resents the term “streetwear” - Jones had little challenge bringing Stussy back into the fold. Stussy left the eponymous brand he founded in 1996, staying fairly distant from the fashion industry save for infrequent releases from his S/DOUBLE imprint. Stussy has left his fashion retirement to design a variety of exclusive imagery for the fashion house’s Pre-Fall 2020 menswear collection. ORIGINAL STORY (December 2, 2019): Rumors have swirled about a possible Jordan Brand x Dior collaboration, but instead of responding to the whispers, the French luxury label has confirmed an entirely different streetwear-adjacent partnership: artistic director Kim Jones spoke to WWD about Dior‘s new joint effort with Stüssy founder Shawn Stussy. Stussy took to Instagram to mention what this project means to him: “Kim Jones has brought me out of retirement to work with him and his Dior family on fall 2020.” Stussy also noted how organic the partnership with Dior felt and that he’s looking forward to seeing how the “next couple days” unfold.