Kim Jones' Final Dior Collection Is a Career-Defining Parting Gift
Dior’s Fall 2025 collection, Kim Jones’ final runway presentation before leaving the French fashion house, felt like a change of pace. Though it retains elements of his seven-year Dior Homme tenure, Jones' last Dior offering is also perhaps his best.
Available online as of early May, Jones' Fall 2025 Dior menswear line is simultaneously casual and tailored, with warm brown blazers cut with room to move and short-length outerwear formed from suiting wool. It’s a further exploration of the interplay between Jones’ streetwear leanings and Dior’s archetypal suiting.
Or, in the words of a press release by the French fashion house, Jones' Fall 2025 Dior Homme line “[combines] uptown preppy and downtown fashionable allure.”
There is an emphasis on sneakers, a key category of Jones' tenure.
Limited-edition sneaker collaborations and retro runners were consistently selling out under his leadership and even the in-line stuff was made notable by the great Thibo Denis.
Jones leaves us with a German army-inspired B01 sneaker, chunky B33 shoes decorated with Dior’s Oblique monogram branding, and sporty runners in a simple grey and black makeover.
The lack of sneakers — and the dominance of dressy leather shoes — was a noted anomaly in the Dior FW25 runway show, one of several small deviations from the regular programming of Jones’ Dior.
The restrained use of logos, reserved color palette, and collaboration-free mood were also gently at odds with the Dior we’d come to expect.
But this Fall 2025 selection, part of the final batch of Jones-designed Dior to hit shop floors, does fall more in line with previous monogram-heavy offerings.
This is largely because it features rehashed products from the Pre-Fall 2025 range. The fun dog-themed bags, for instance, which reimagine a floppy-eared pup as a leather accessory, were first unveiled as part of Pre-Fall 2025.
However, this time around, a crossbody bag is entirely shaped as a doggy, as opposed to the Pre-Fall 2025 duffles.
Ahead of the unveiling of Jonathan Anderson’s Dior Homme, one of the many creative director debuts slated for the Spring/Summer 2026 season, this fall collection is a final reminder of the casual-skewing luxury menswear vision he is inheriting from Kim Jones.
Soon, things are set to look very different at the house of Dior.
