The Dior Men’s Fall 2023 Collection Goes from Dune to a Dream

Just mere days after the showing of the Dior Men’s Fall 2023 show, there have been several discussions on the internet about what it takes to bring a brand from homeground to distant lands. On one side of the camp, discussions have been made that a show is only stellar if a designer takes inspiration from a location and imbues it into their work; even better, if they engage the locals of the land to form the show itself. On the other, we, and fashion fanatics from Twitter to far-flung forums have agreed that good clothing only works from the runway to real life if it looks “in-place” when it is shown in a foreign land.

While the Dior Men’s Fall 2023 show has all the motifs of Kim Jones’s current era at Dior Men — the flou versus the tailoring, streetwear codes from Paris’s right bank, and the stylistic cues of men who dress like boys and vice versa — Cairo, where the show was held formed a backdrop for what Jones’s himself has been doing for the past few seasons: crafting collections that can form a man’s intercontinental wardrobe.

Here, some of the key looks from the show.