Dior Shelves Hong Kong Runway Show

Dior has “postponed indefinitely” its menswear present slated for March 23 in Hong Kong. Manufacturing groups, travelling friends and native authorities had been knowledgeable yesterday of the change, only a month earlier than the occasion.

The model didn’t provide a cause for the change — nor any indication of when the present is likely to be rescheduled — sparking frustration from native officers who had hoped the occasion can be a significant second spotlighting Hong Kong’s enchantment as a vacation spot for worldwide journey and buying.

Hong Kong’s standing as a global retail hub has declined in recent times as Beijing has ramped up oversight of the territory whereas protests and pandemic-era journey restrictions curbed demand for journey and buying, with guests from Mainland Chinese language re-routing to locations just like the duty-free island Hainan. LVMH stablemate Louis Vuitton additionally sought to highlight town as a vogue vacation spot with a present by menswear artistic director Pharrell Williams final yr.

Dior’s unexplained postponement may raises questions in regards to the well being of Hong Kong’s luxurious market in addition to the way forward for males’s artistic director Kim Jones, who will mark 6 years on the model April 1. Since Jones joined Dior in 2018, menswear gross sales have boomed because the designer combined home codes like nipped-waist tailoring and carnage with streetwear and collaborations with hip artists.

Dior representatives declined to touch upon why the present has been shelved.

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