Tonight, hours after the lights went down on his fall 2025 Dior Men show, friends and admirers of Kim Jones, including Gwendoline Christie, Robert Pattinson, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy O. Harris, David Furnish, Chitose Abe, Rick Owens, and the CEO of Christian Dior, Delphine Arnault, gathered to see the designer knighted a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, France’s highest civilian honor.
Established by Napoléon Bonaparte in 1802, the order of merit recognizes its recipient for significant contributions to cultural excellence. Jones received the honor from Anna Wintour, global editorial director of Vogue and chief content officer of Condé Nast, who, before pinning the red-ribboned cross on the designer’s left lapel, over his heart, praised him for his generosity.
“Our industry can tend to put ‘me’ before ‘we’, but not Kim Jones,” she told the crowd. (…) I can’t think of another designer where ‘team’ simply means colleagues and friends. The two are virtually indistinguishable.” Wintour noted how, long before Demi Moore’s career was reignited by The Substance, Jones had chosen her to open his Fendi show despite her then-underdog status. He shares with the late Karl Lagerfeld, she added, “a voracious lust for knowledge and a curiosity that is astounding.” Kim is not only a designer, she observed, but a polymath—a botanist, zoologist, archaeologist, curator, historian and collector of art, books, people, Hermès Kelly bags, Star Wars baby Yoda figures, and works by the Bloomsbury group. “When it comes to what Kim loves, and what inspires him, there is no high and low, it’s all just joy,” she said.
