Christian Dior F/W 2007.08 Paris
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i like a lot of it!
but it seems kind of not as united as galliano's collections usually are...
but it seems kind of not as united as galliano's collections usually are...
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Perhaps I have no taste, but I tend to like collections most people dislike. I like this collection. I thought it was nice how he continued the theme from HC into this season w/ a twist 
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the shoes look so painful, but i like them!
And now here they are..stilettogirl84
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looking back on the whole thing, this looks to me like a caricature of a late 1940's or early 1950's runway collection, redisigned for barbie. Even the model's makeup with the theatrical arched brows and winged eyeliner look remarkable similar to the original barbie doll.
The oversized jewelery, espescially the earrings, look exactly like things my barbies wore when I was a child. The earrings, which were identical to those shown below, had to be stuck into holes in the barbie's head in order to stay in place.
This collection reminds me not of any particular late 40's or early 50's designer, but symply looks like a stereotype of what someone might imagine to be "glamour from the past" and how they might imagine women used to dress, but redone in dayglow colors.
I'm sure this is fun for galliano, and lets him express his fantasies about his mental caricature of "glamourous woman" but few modern women want to look like caricatures (Dita von Teese notwithstanding)
as pretty as these things are, they do not really fit into the way that modern women dress.
In stores, and watered down to a less day glow hue, some of these things will likely sell, and in fact some of the things I would enjoy if combined wioth something else more modern.
However old world glamor needs to be reinvented if it is to be worn today, and not simply shown again, just as it was, more than fifty years ago.
Seveal seasons ago, when McQueen did his "hitchcok" collection, I felt he did a good job of making 50s 60's "lady" clothes look modern. I think this collection does not look modern, but simply cartoonish.
The oversized jewelery, espescially the earrings, look exactly like things my barbies wore when I was a child. The earrings, which were identical to those shown below, had to be stuck into holes in the barbie's head in order to stay in place.
This collection reminds me not of any particular late 40's or early 50's designer, but symply looks like a stereotype of what someone might imagine to be "glamour from the past" and how they might imagine women used to dress, but redone in dayglow colors.
I'm sure this is fun for galliano, and lets him express his fantasies about his mental caricature of "glamourous woman" but few modern women want to look like caricatures (Dita von Teese notwithstanding)
as pretty as these things are, they do not really fit into the way that modern women dress.
In stores, and watered down to a less day glow hue, some of these things will likely sell, and in fact some of the things I would enjoy if combined wioth something else more modern.
However old world glamor needs to be reinvented if it is to be worn today, and not simply shown again, just as it was, more than fifty years ago.
Seveal seasons ago, when McQueen did his "hitchcok" collection, I felt he did a good job of making 50s 60's "lady" clothes look modern. I think this collection does not look modern, but simply cartoonish.
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