Christian Dior F/W 2007.08 Paris

[AGiles]

this is fun but no one can wear any of this this is dragqueen wear.

 

[Spike413]

Wow, I'm extremely upset by this. It lacks any imagination at all. The theatrics feel half-***ed, as do the designs. In the past, he excelled at blurring the couture references with completely new ideas to make it feel different. This just doesn't have that magic.

This all looks so fussy for Galliano, maybe it's the subject matter of 1940s/50s Dior elegance fused with origami, but when I look at these compared to his more outrageous stuff I can't help but feel that this looks so forced. Even his most rediculously over the top, worked to death couture concoctions still seemed like they happened naturally, if not completely by accident. This is just a sad imitation of what I know Galliano can be.

That said, there are beautiful looks and pieces in there. The daywear works best imo, the suits, coats and that tweed assymetrical dress are beautiful, but the eveningwear....some of it strays into Valentino territory with it's fussiness.

 

[eternitygoddess]

I LOVE IT!!!

Some people will just never be pleased by what Galliano does.

Some of the dresses look very wearable and thank god a designer is using color instead of the boring monochromatic pallette.

 

[bedtimestorynyc]

it's okay, too couturish to me!

 

[eugenius]

The millinery makes me wet..

 

[ilaughead]

The millinery makes me wet..

I know! Does anyone know who did it this season?

 

[Deleted member 7575]

recycling the couture show

and every other collection he's ever done

 

[Zazie]

I look at all these and I wonder HOW people can describe Prada as ugly while this kind of hideous crap gets the "ooohs" and "aaahs". Our taste has NEVER evolved has it? Put a lot of tulle, chiffon, embroidery, bows, ribbons in all kinds of candy colours and voila, success.

 

[fouroclock]

I still like it. Old glamour beats everything.

 

[Deleted member 7575]

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.

word

 

[JJohnson]

I know! Does anyone know who did it this season?

doesnt he always use Stephen Jones?

 

[bluedolphin]

looks amazing ,but looks like couture show

 

[disco54]

this is 10000times better than prada

I look at all these and I wonder HOW people can describe Prada as ugly while this kind of hideous crap gets the "ooohs" and "aaahs". Our taste has NEVER evolved has it? Put a lot of tulle, chiffon, embroidery, bows, ribbons in all kinds of candy colours and voila, success.

Wearing plastic astroturf skirts and hannibal lector hats doesnt constitute high feminine fashion ........DIOR is awesome , it captured the essence of a glamorous yet strong woman.....this colllection is awesome!

 

[dannyboy0828]

two disappointments in one day!

after s/s 07 rtw and hc, i had really high hopes for Galliano

although i think a lot of the clothes look very pretty, this collection doesnt feel fresh at ALL.

like others have said, it looks like HC left overs.

hopefully his namesake line will make up for it on saturday

 

[eternitygoddess]

I don't get why everyone wants Dior to be 'wearable'. Dior is cutting edge, fantasy, bordering on unwearable. This is what makes Dior Dior. If you want wearable, boring, go look at NY fashion.

Galliano did a relatively sedate collection for S/S and all the critics was complaining how it wasn't Dior.

 

[Ghost]

Dior will rarely send these gorgeous (in terms of embriodery not clothes) pics to their shops except for those big stores in france, paris or japan.
i'm sure the whole collection will turn into t-shirts, trench coats, jackets and saddlebags and trousers. Dior runway pics never go to shop without a slight adjustment and transform here and there

 

[cheiby11]

no no no

Dior doesn't need to be wearable? Christian Dior's clothes wore/imitated whole world... his NEW LOOK... it was new, modern, wearable... he made his clothes for modern women

 

[Ceptuouse]

How come every Dior show always turns into this argument of 'being wearable', & 'if Christian Dior would have liked it...'

 

[Spike413]

^ I think some people use it as a stock answer.

But in all honesty, this collection was borderline depressing for me. For all of the bright colors, interesting shapes and couture-borrowed details, it might as well be 50 little black dresses. There's no passion, no invention, no magic at all.

Even the spring collection, which was intentionally restrained and somber, had an irrepressable sense of romance and beauty about it. This just feels like an exercize, not a creation.

As for the wearability, I fail to see why much of this is unwearable. Of course it's not for everybody, but that's due to personal taste, not the clothes themselves. Disect each look down to individual pieces, take away the hair, makeup and accessories, and imagine it out of the context of a collection and what you basically have is folded, draped and pleated jackets, skirts and dresses, some fur coats and some evening gowns. The only thing that strikes me as unwearable about this collection is the colors, just because most people aren't daring enough to done a bright orange cocktail dress. And if you look at every ready to wear collection John has ever done pre-2000 and you'll see that his stuff has NEVER been universally wearable.

And about the whole "not Dior" thing, I suggest people look harder. This is probably the most blantanly Dior collection I've ever seen John produce. Change all of those bright colors in for greys, black, ivory's and pale pastels and you basically have Christian Dior. Circle skirts, fur-trimmed coats, tailored skirt suits, sharp jackets, OTT evening suits and dresses, even some of the hats. This is as close to Dior as John is ever going to get......and that's probably why I don't like it, it's just so blatantly referenced.

 

[cheiby11]

I wanted to say that Dior did modern clothes for modern women in 50's of last century... Galliano would have do modern clothes for women now... this collection is needless and empty IMO