Christian Dior 1996-2002 : The John Galliano Early Years

[EvaH]

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, sl*tty 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
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[dior_couture1245]

Full, official video of Dior Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2001!

 

[peppi]

Thanks, amazing! I loved the opening Catwoman bit!

 

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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"

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.

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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"

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Couture Line: House of Dior (French, founded 1947)
Date: 1996–97
Medium: (a–c) silk
Dimensions: Length at CB (a 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm) Length at CB (b 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm) Length at CB (c 23 in. (58.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Anne H. Bass, 2002
Marking: [Label] (a) "CHRISTIAN DIOR/Haute Couture/ Paris/Model No:29779, 29780, 29781/100% soie"

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Couture Line: House of Dior (French, founded 1947)
Date: fall/winter 1998–99
Medium: a) silk; b-e) cotton
Dimensions: Length at CB (a 52 in. (132.1 cm) Length (b 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm) Length (c,d 12 in. (30.5 cm) Length (e (circumference) 20 in. (50.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. William McCormick Blair Jr., 2004
Marking: [label] "Christian Dior / HAUTE COUTURE / PARIS"

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Couture Line: House of Dior (French, founded 1947)
Date: spring/summer 1998
Medium: a) wool, silk; b) wool
Credit Line: Gift of Thomas L. Kempner, 2006
Marking: a) [label] "Christian Dior / HAUTE COUTURE / PARIS" b) [typed label] "19881 PE98 / 100%LAINE / DOUBLE SOIE"

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Date: fall/winter 1997–98
Medium: (a,b) wool, silk
Credit Line: Gift of Thomas L. Kempner, 2006
Marking: [label] (a) "Christian Dior / HAUTE COUTURE AH 97 / PARIS" [typed label] (b) "JUPE 4BIS AH97"

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Date: spring/summer 2000
Medium: silk
Dimensions: Length: 57 in. (144.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Anne E. de la Renta, 2001

source: metmuseum.org

 

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Date: ca. 1996
Medium: (a–c) wool, cashmere, elastane
Dimensions: Length at CB (a 25 in. (63.5 cm) Length at CB (b 30 in. (76.2 cm) Length at CB (c 20 1/2 in. (52.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mireille Levy - Lausanne, 2001

source: metmuseum.org

 

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Date: fall/winter 1997–98
Medium: leather, silk
Credit Line: Gift of Thomas L. Kempner, 2006

source: metmuseum.org

 

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Date: 1996
Medium: silk
Dimensions: Length at CB: 67 in. (170.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Madonna, 2010

source: metmuseum.org

 

[Fashion_Girl22]

I'm not sure why firstview has suddenly chosen to repost this collection, but I can't say that I am upset by the decision.

Christian Dior Spring/Summer 1999
*Note: some looks are missing and I rearranged the order of the images to match the order in which they were presented in the show

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