Suit and Choker Autumn/Winter 1997
Designer: John Galliano
Brand: Christian Dior
Label: Christian Dior HAUTE COUTURE AH97 PARIS (Stamp AH97 29374)
Material: Set of jacket and skirt of gray wool tweed; pad at jacket hem; train with long skirt; choker of 35 rings of two-toned silver.
Probably.. could you imagine how beautiful it would be if someone pulled it up so it covered her breasts and put a slip underneath? It's a lot more wearable tham it would seem.
Are there any editorial pics of that gown that Nicole Kidman wore to the Oscars?
Finished browsing through this thread, and wow!, he was great in back the day. It's too bad he went stale, but when he was fresh, he was really really innovative.
Love this show! Thank you for posting. Such a great soundtrack - no surprise!
Love these early 2000's collection from Dior - love the mix of the street, the music scene, and the atelier, all rolled up into one sweaty, slutty package. So fantastic. There's so much energy in the production - set, lighting, music, casting, hair and makeup - fashion just doesn't have that same electricity anymore.
Love this show! Thank you for posting. Such a great soundtrack - no surprise!
Love these early 2000's collection from Dior - love the mix of the street, the music scene, and the atelier, all rolled up into one sweaty, slutty package. So fantastic. There's so much energy in the production - set, lighting, music, casting, hair and makeup - fashion just doesn't have that same electricity anymore.
Couldn't have said it better. It was grand. Looking back I am just really glad he gave us all this. It was a constant travel, a real mixture of influences and emotions. Really miss this world. Although I really respect Raf vision, I miss this mixture of life and elegance, innovation and fun Posted via Mobile Device
Date: spring/summer 1998
Medium: (a, e, f) silk; (b, d) synthetic; (c) wool; (g, h) metal, glass
Dimensions: Length (b; greatest): 50 in. (127 cm) Height (c): 13 3/8 in. (34 cm) Length (d): 14 in. (35.6 cm) Heel to Toe (e,f): 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) Length (g,h): 2 in. (5.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Christian Dior Couture Paris, 1999
Marking: [label] (c) "CD" [label] (e, f) "Christian Dior"
Quote:
In this design, John Galliano for Dior combined the elements of a robe à la française with the vast crinolined silhouettes of the mid-nineteenth century. The stomacher, open overskirt, and petticoat are expressly eighteenth century, but the huge wired cages that support the skirts over nine feet wide are constructed more like the hoops of the Second Empire than the discrete by comparison panniers of the ancien régime. While the eighteenth-century woman could at least sidle through a doorway, Galliano's beauties, because of the depths of their skirts, would have to torque and deform their hoops to squeeze their way through.
Couture Line: House of Dior (French, founded 1947)
Date: ca. 1997
Medium: (a–c) wool; (d) silk
Dimensions: Length at CB (a): 24 1/4 in. (61.6 cm) Length at CB (b): 23 in. (58.4 cm) Length at CB (c): 41 1/4 in. (104.8 cm) Length at CB (d): 14 in. (35.6 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Anne H. Bass, 2002
Marking: [Label] (a) "CHRISTIAN DIOR/Haute Couture Paris/Model No:A-H 97/31827, 31828, 29411/100% laine, double soie" [label] (d) "Labbia Rosa"
source: metmuseum.org