Christian Dior
Headquartered in Paris, Christian Dior is a high fashion clothing retailer,
which operates some 200 boutiques worldwide. Christian Dior Couture designs
and makes some of the world’s most coveted haute couture, along with luxury
read to wear fashion and accessories for men and women.
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The 2009 Christian Dior paris fashion week Christian Dior couture show opened with the legendary
Dior bar jackets in fuschia wool crepe with jewel encrusted sleeves
tightly belted over flesh tone lace knickers or in violet wool bouclé
with a matching skirt but accessorised with a visible black mesh
suspender belt. A lilac wide collared jacket was worn with seashell
pink lace tap pants and an orange satin tulip skirt. Lace knickers
suspenders and stockings
were paired with a dramatic black and
white zebra print jacket and a leopard
print sheath dress that
was open at the bust to show an elegant black lace bra.
An embroidered acid yellow wool crepe coat was folded up pannier
fashion at each hip to disclose saucy stocking tops. Scalloped
lace petticoats flashed under the hem of an embroidered nude
tone jersey dress and a fluorescent lime jacket came with a black
lace half slip. The sharp graphic lines on which Dior Homme was
once drawn and the house’s dark glamour have evaporated. The
current designer Kris Van Assche softened the silhouette like
melting butter here a double vest with its interior panel running
downwards there ultra light layers spread over each other. And
everywhere the shadow of the body through perforated cardigans,
gauzy jackets or nylon coats. The designer has used high tech
fabrics before to give a cool edge to his clothes. But this
Christian Dior collection, with its gray and beige colors, had a languid feel.
This Christian Dior collection made for a laid back collection. And if there were tiny bursts
of energy in back zipper boots, the sexual charge of dynamic Dior
had melted away in favor of summer ease.
At Christian Dior haute couture the look for spring 2006 will be Dior Nude Black, Dior Nude
Lace, Dior Nude Print, Dior Nude Layering and Dior Nude Degrade, as
stated in an elegant program bound in nude cardboard.
In 2005 Christian Dior fashion show there were dramatic coats with
belts that wrapped high on the torso. Oversize sweaters in sailor
stripes slumped around the body. There were cargo pants and leather
suits with bowl shaped skirts. A burgundy coat in lush velvet topped a
black and merlot printed mini dress. And there were caftan Christian Dior dresses and
evening dresses fashion in peekaboo lace and exquisite clothes.
In other scene the French actress Marion Cotillard had on a Dior glen
plaid dress and very high heels, and her hair was pinned up in tight
curls. The petite actress making her entrance to a fashion show, then
pausing to express her delight in her outfit or at the prospect of seeing
a John Galliano show. There were crisp day jackets belted over short
pleated skirts; some breezy printed silk mini dresses and others in
embroidered suede or in a textured camel colored knit.
On the way to the Costume Institute's Christian Dior exhibition at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art you will come upon a photograph of a
Christian Dior dinner dress from 1949: a slender column of black wool that
sheathes the female form. Draping made of black silk faille stretches
across the abdomen, then descends to the floor. The white mannequin
neck and shoulders are bare; so are her arms, until they plunge into
the darkness of long black gloves. The Dior women could measure themself
by the kind of Christian Dior dresses they wore: the day dress, a black dinner dress, the
theater dress, black evening dress fashion, the cocktail dress, the Venus or
the Scarlatti ball gown. Christian Dior clothing reigned over the world of fashion
with his New Look: the closely mapped upper body, the emphatically
tiny waist, the vast and sumptuous full skirts.
References: 1. Telegraph UK 2. The New York Times 3. Business Week 4. Washington Post
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