From road trip to catwalk: Jack Kerouac classic inspires Dior collection

Kim Jones, winner of Fashion Awards designer of the year, draws on Beat novel On the Road for his first show in London since 2003

On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s seminal novel of the Beat generation, “sold a trillion Levi’s, [and] a million espresso coffee machines”, as the writer’s friend and fellow poet William Burroughs once wrote.

Now one of the coolest books in the literary canon is in the fashion spotlight as the inspiration for a Dior menswear collection unveiled at a blockbuster London catwalk show.