Dior and Otani: New collaboration 2024
Dior’s artistic director Kim Jones has teamed up with emerging Japanese designer named Otani on a capsule menswear collection. Dior and Otani’s collection will be launched on 4 January 2024.
Dior collaborates with Otani, a rising Japanese artist
Otani, who is represented by the Perrotin gallery, is a ceramic sculpture specialist whose subjects frequently include protruding heads, anthropomorphic vases, kids, and animals.
Kim Jones stated:
“I really admire Otani’s work. He is a key figure in the Japanese contemporary art world. Working with him is a nice reference to Monsieur Dior, who was a gallerist before being a couturier. The Tanilla monster designed by the artist gives a fresh and funny energy to this capsule collection”.
Dior and Otani Workshop capsule collection
The 24-piece Dior and Otani Workshop collection, which features sweaters and bomber jackets with the small green monster known as Tanilla on them, is scheduled to arrive in Dior boutiques worldwide the first week of January 2024. Shoes range in price from 1,125 to 1,400 euros, while clothing items are priced between 950 and 3,000 euros.
Additionally, to represent this merge between Dior and Otani, the pattern appears on knitwear adorned with Dior’s iconic Oblique motif in burgundy and pink, as well as a denim overshirt. A stylized version of the Dior logo is paired with the monster on items like hooded sweatshirts, baseball caps, and pouches.
Jones, before this collaboration between Dior and Otani, has fostered the flourishing relationship between fashion and art since taking over as artistic director of men’s collections at Dior in 2018 by regularly collaborating with artists. However, in 2021, he shifted his focus to expand his partnerships to include cultural institutions and other designers.
Since their first partnership in 2021, he has collaborated with a number of well-known artists, including Kaws, Daniel Arsham, Kenny Scharf, Hajime Sorayama, and Peter Doig. Together, they have showcased a number of skiwear collections.
More about Otani
Otani was raised in the comparatively rural Kansai region of Shiga Prefecture, which is close to Kyoto. It is home to the town of Shigaraki, which is well-known for its 800-year ceramic tradition. For more than a millennium, Kansai served as the political center of Japan, with Kyoto serving as its cultural hub. Since nearby villages like Shigaraki have been providing the city with exquisite decorative arts for centuries, the city is a physical embodiment of the highest level of Japanese aesthetic sensibility.
The first impression of the artwork of the Japanese artist Otani is the fact that he has a slightly strange sense of humor. His sculptures, which feature clever representations of the human face, generate a startling simplicity and innocence from onlookers. The pieces portray a world seen through affectionate lenses and experienced without filters. They also exhibit an amazing attention to detail and a mastery of conventional ceramic techniques. They embody ancient traditions distilled through a highly individual vision, rooted within a spectrum of artistic influences.
The artist recalls having a fairly typical—even idyllic—childhood during which he spent a lot of time daydreaming and exploring the surrounding mountains and forests. He compared his enjoyment of identifying human faces and animal shapes in stones and other inanimate objects to Shinto animism, which holds that everything has a spirit. In an exhibition text that accompanied his 2020 show at Perrotin in New York City, he stated, “I want to create work that has a spirit of its own.” This almost shamanic drive is a recurring theme in a lot of the artist’s creations.
Conclusion: Dior and Otani parternship results on a capsule collection that is going to be launch on the 4th of January of 2024.
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