DANCING STAR: Ballet flats for males are simply one of many equipment highlighted in Dior’s fall menswear marketing campaign shot by Alasdair McLellan, set in a decor harking back to a mirror-lined dance studio.
Fashions Lars Submit, Muzakir Masahudu, Dugyeong Kim, Trystan Ricketts and Until Wenner pose in objects from inventive director Kim Jones’ fall assortment impressed by Rudolf Nureyev and his uncle Colin Jones, who photographed the Russian dancer.
Clothes consists of tailoring, with iterations of his signature Indirect swimsuit; outerwear, with roomy wool melton and leather-based jackets, and direct references to bounce gear, comparable to ribbed knits, gown coats and zipped wool jumpsuits and shorts.
Comfortable luggage are available a blown-up model of the model’s signature cannage sample, and a few fashions put on turbans designed by Stephen Jones, impressed by those he initially created for a 1999 Dior womenswear assortment by John Galliano.
The marketing campaign was art-directed by Ronnie Cooke Newhouse and styled by Melanie Ward. Peter Philips did the make-up and Anthony Turner the hair.