Imbued with a sporty, lo-fi feel, the fall 2025 Dior menswear collection reinvents classic style with a fresh perspective. Blending sharp contrasts – formal and informal, structured and unstructured, uptown and downtown, Paris and New York, preppy and too-cool-for-school – it captures the essence of a pivotal era in men’s fashion. “We were looking at a time when men’s fashion really started to feel global – in many ways, it felt like the beginning of the fashion world we live in today,” artistic director Kim Jones relays in a press release. “In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dior exploded in America; I’ve always been fascinated by New York during this period. It’s that collision of Europe and America, Paris and New York, uptown and downtown, preppy and cool, something reflected in fashion, film, the art world and photography during that time. It’s when men’s fashion and fashion designers really started to travel, with the birth of a new, relaxed sartorial style. Something that feels right now as well as then.”
This means that a certain nonchalance moves through the otherwise crisp and precise collection. Think double-breasted suits made with specially commissioned fabrics, reimagined varsity jackets and hybrid pieces that merge workwear grit with formal polish. For example, Dior’s signature strapped jacket, utilising the Oblique wrap cut, achieves its saturated tan colouring and distinctly textured look through the use of cold dyeing wool, with the strap ingeniously transformed into an extended martingale. Elsewhere, tailoring fabrics traverse parkas, trenches and baseball caps while classic shirting fabrics metamorphose into baseball tees and the linings of garments.
Peeking out from cropped hems are Dior’s signature derbies and combat boots – designed to look as if they have steel caps without actually using steel caps – or the revived B01 Matchpoint Training Shoes, modified to be more comfortable than the original, 2002-era model.
New to the menswear opus is a bold Cuban chain necklace that entwines with a lily-of-the-valley motif pendant, marking the first in a line of exceptional silver pieces that will feature in each future collection. Other jewellery comes in the shape of sterling silver cannage-motif pieces that bedeck wrists, cuffs and collars.
Adding to the versatility of the offering, simple, Dior Oblique-embossed camera bags are tucked under tailored arms while backpacks, totes and messenger bags are effortlessly slung over shoulders or across the body, prepared to take you from work to weekend. Some looks are elevated by bags from the Dior Icons collection, defined by sleek simplicity and effortless style. Free of hardware, these feature a subtle embossed Dior logo as their only embellishment. Expertly crafted from supple, large-grained leather, these pieces deliver a relaxed, unstructured sophistication with undeniable finesse.
Designed, perhaps, to be passed through generations, this collection positions itself as a “future archive”, an enduring testament to Dior’s craftsmanship and vision where timelessness and top tier quality are key.
Photography courtesy of Dior.
