{"id":81088,"date":"2025-06-25T12:30:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=81088"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:30:54","slug":"dior-reveals-kylian-mbappe-as-new-menswear-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/dior-reveals-kylian-mbappe-as-new-menswear-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"DIOR reveals Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 as new menswear ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"

New DIOR Creative Director Jonathan Anderson has announced that football superstar Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 is a new Dior ambassador.<\/p>\n

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\u201cKylian Mbapp\u00e9 is the voice of a generation and an inspiration to many people in the world of sport and beyond,\u201d<\/em> wrote Anderson on his Instagram account. The post featured a short video of the French footballer tying a red and blue club tie onto a blue striped shirt, paired with a Dior dove gray two-button herringbone jacket. At the end, Mbapp\u00e9 utters a single word \u2014 \u201cDior.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThese films show the charm and charisma that make him the perfect ambassador for this house. Get ready for Dior Summer 2026 June 27 livestreaming from 2 p.m. CEST,\u201d<\/em> added Anderson, who is legendary for teasing his design intentions on social media.<\/p>\n

Previous posts have included silver-gray frogs and pigs pricked with ornate needles, surrounded by thread, ribbons, and buttons. Other posts have included everyone from Lee Radziwill to Jean-Michel Basquiat.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I started out on this journey, I kept returning to these photographs of Basquiat and Radziwill who are both, for me, the epitome of style,\u201d<\/em> noted the Northern Irish-born Anderson, whose prior post featured a canary yellow tote that read Dracula by Bram Stoker. Stoker is another Irishman, by the way.<\/p>\n

Mbapp\u00e9 is a World Cup-winning striker who plays club football for the game\u2019s most storied team, Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

In Mbapp\u00e9\u2019s debut campaign with Real Madrid last season, the French captain scored 43 goals in 56 matches, winning the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Intercontinental Cup along the way \u2014 as well as the European Golden Boot as Europe\u2019s top scorer \u2014 but missed out on the La Liga title by four points and was knocked out of the Champions League by Arsenal in the quarterfinals. By Real\u2019s standards, it was an unusually unsuccessful season, where Real won none of the last four competitions it entered.<\/p>\n

Mbapp\u00e9 is currently in the United States with Real, one of 32 teams contesting an inaugural new format of the Club World Cup. However, he was taken to hospital last week suffering from \u201cacute gastroenteritis\u201d before returning to the team\u2019s training complex in Palm Beach, Florida. Mbapp\u00e9 neither played nor was on the bench for Real\u2019s most recent game, a 6-0 demolition of Mexican side Pachuca on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Anderson\u2019s debut for Dior is by far the most anticipated show in the Paris menswear runway season, which starts today, June 24, and ends Sunday, June 29.<\/p>\n

On June 2, Dior officially appointed Anderson as creative director of women\u2019s, men\u2019s, and haute couture collections, marking the first time in the brand\u2019s history that one designer has handled all three disciplines since the passing of its founder, Christian Dior.<\/p>\n

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