Reinventing the Dior man: Kim Jones is transforming the way men dress

Masculine or feminine? Street wear or couture? At the storied fashion house, designer Kim Jones is transforming the way men dress, writes Thomas Chatterton Williams.

KIM JONES, the 40-something-year-old English designer at Dior Men, is not exactly a Francophile. He considers his life to be in London, where he has a Brutalist concrete bunker in Notting Hill. But for the past five years, whenever he is in Paris, he has lived in an exquisitely preserved 17th-century hôtel particulier on the stately Place des Victoires, a short walk from the Louvre and the manicured gardens of the Palais Royal.