Kim Jones headshot

Kim Jones

Designer


The Impression 250 is a hand-selected list of fashion’s leading creatives shaping the global fashion narrative today.

British menswear designer Kim Jones has worked with a host of high profile fashion brands, including DunhillLouis Vuitton , MulberryAlexander McQueen Hugo Boss , Iceberg, Topman and Uniqlo. He exited his role as men’s artistic director of Louis Vuitton in January 2018, after revolutionizing the house’s menswear offering with a distinctive, streetwear-inflected take on luxury. In March 2018 it was announced he would be joining Dior Men as artistic director, showing his first collection in June 2018.

In addition to maintaining his role as Artistic Director of Dior Men, Fendi announced the appointment of Kim Jones as Artistic Director of haute couture, ready-to-wear and fur collections for women. He showed his first Fendi collection for the Fall 2021-22 season.

In 2011, following a three year tenure as creative director of British luxury goods brand Alfred Dunhill, Jones was appointed as style director of Louis Vuitton’s ready-to-wear menswear collections, taking charge of one of the fastest growing sections of the global fashion powerhouse. The designer’s debut collection for Spring/Summer 2012 proved an instant hit with industry insiders, with subsequent collections cementing Jones’s prominence as one of the leading designers in menswear. The celebrated designer has been awarded numerous awards throughout his career including ‘Menswear Designer of the Year’ by the British Fashion Council in 2009 and 2011 and two successive ‘Topshop New Generation’ awards.

Having spent his formative years travelling with family to exotic locations in Africa and the Amazon, Jones returned to London in his teens, attending the prestigious Central Saint Martins for his undergraduate degree. In 2002, the budding designer’s graduate collection was bought by John Galliano and shortly after Jones launched his namesake label. Showing at London Fashion Week in 2003, he swiftly earned a reputation as a designer of the zeitgeist for his edgy, street-wear inspired aesthetic. Jones designed for his label for eight seasons, debuting at Paris Fashion Week in 2004, before disbanding the company to take up the creative directorship at Dunhill.

Jones has also worked as a stylist and art director for magazines such as Dazed & Confused, Pop, Fantastic Man and T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and worked on a book with the late photographer Luke Smalley that was published in 2004.

BRANDS
Fendi (2020-Present)
Dior (2018-Present)
Kim Jones (2003-Present)
Louis Vuitton (2011-2018)
Dunhill (2008-2011)

INSTAGRAM
@mrkimjones

The Impression 250 is a hand-selected list of fashion’s leading creatives shaping the global fashion narrative today.