For the first time in 15 years, as Paris haute couture week opened, the house of Christian Dior led its autumn/winter 2011 haute couture collection without fashion designer John Galliano.
At the helm substitute Bill Gattyen, who had previously assisted the couture and ready-to-wear master for 23 years, was instantly upgraded after Galliano’s anti-Semitic rants earlier this year, which led to the label dropping him altogether.
Gattyen’s first ever collection to customers and international press was a theatrical display with a modern twist, referencing designers such as Marc Bohan; perhaps noting this after the show as a knock to Galliano for not dredging through the archives once again.
Designs were dramatic and contemporary with artistic interpretations but also wearable. Opening sequences of pop-art prints were fun with tutti-frutti embroidery and mosaic-effect pieces. At one-point models adorned fabulous taffeta ballgowns that were so big that they could not even pass each other by on the catwalk, as there was not enough room.
The finale was left for model of the moment Karlie Kloss who was dressed in a grey silk tulle shredded dress with ink stain black spots and frill collar lined with silk trim; complete with a pointy white hat trimmed with three black pom poms, reminiscent of the recognisable French pantomime character Pierrot.
One thing is for certain though, the house of Dior are keeping tight-lipped about Galliano’s future replacement.
Gattyen’s first ever collection to customers and international press was a theatrical display with a modern twist, referencing designers such as Marc Bohan; perhaps noting this after the show as a knock to Galliano for not dredging through the archives once again.
Designs were dramatic and contemporary with artistic interpretations but also wearable. Opening sequences of pop-art prints were fun with tutti-frutti embroidery and mosaic-effect pieces. At one-point models adorned fabulous taffeta ballgowns that were so big that they could not even pass each other by on the catwalk, as there was not enough room.
The finale was left for model of the moment Karlie Kloss who was dressed in a grey silk tulle shredded dress with ink stain black spots and frill collar lined with silk trim; complete with a pointy white hat trimmed with three black pom poms, reminiscent of the recognisable French pantomime character Pierrot.
One thing is for certain though, the house of Dior are keeping tight-lipped about Galliano’s future replacement.
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