“American sportswear is to me the basis of the modern men’s wardrobe,” said Jones at a preview of the show. There were book cover T-shirts, and Dior football jerseys referencing Kerouac’s sports scholarship at Columbia University. The book jacket of Jones’s early edition of Kerouac’s novel Visions of Cody, illustrated with two rugged James Dean lookalikes dressed for a road trip, came to life on the catwalk as models with gelled hair and spectacles wore checked shirts, sheepskin-collared trucker jackets and jeans cropped high above brogues and clashing socks. His library of Beat editions and artefacts includes Kerouac’s mother’s copy of On the Road books inscribed by Burroughs to the artist David Hockney letters between the group, and even the poet Allen Ginsberg’s credit card. The British creative director of Dior menswear, Kim Jones, is a collector of rare books and literary memorabilia.
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