Christian Dior F/W 2007.08 Paris

[adorefaith]

i just dont understand....
most of this looks so so tacky....
what would you think if you saw a woman wearing these outfits?...

the colours are so loud and cheap....
its all so overdone....its not even creative theatrics....its just all too much...the silly hats, the long fake nails, the neon colours, the feathers ad fur....this looks like one big bad joke!!!

what is beautiful about this?.....with the exception of perhaps one dress, i dont see anything....

 

[taz]

well I can see that some of the peices has an an homage to Yves Saint Laurent early days at Dior such as:
the "A" shaped cut which is known as the Trapez line' & was invented by Yves for Dior ,the black & white sleek dress with bow & the leather jacket trimmed with mink fur which had created a shock when Yves invented it & regarded as a tastless.

style

 

[kissmesweet]

i just dont understand....
most of this looks so so tacky....

That it does... I have mixed feelings about this. I'm going from "Wow, that's stunning" to "That's disgusting" to... "What on earth..." to "Gorgeous!"
But most of the stuff is really tacky, but in a good way... I guess. It keeps fashion fun and imaginative. Although, I thought that the basicness and simplicity in SS07 would have been a good route to follow.

 

[ParadEyes]

i wouldnt want to wear any of this... too overdone and flashy for my taste
-except the oversized jewelery ..i like
and the makeup is really beautiful

 

[Mr-Dale]

Sarah Mower liked it?

PARIS, February 27, 2007 – If you're getting into the forties this season (and that's definitely one way to go), John Galliano is the man to fulfill those latent Joan Crawford urges, no holds barred. His ready-to-wear collection for Christian Dior was virtually a camp-fabulous Hollywood spectacular—like a pumped-up 2007 remake of The Women (Cukor, 1939; ever a fashion favorite), but this time played out in full glorious purple, pistachio, electric blue, and fuchsia, rather than black and white.

As a comeback from last season's comparatively muted collection, this was Galliano performing at full throttle, filling the runway with 58 girls dressed, as grandma would say, to the nines. Partly, it was an homage to Dior—the dove-gray runway, the banked flowers, and the balustrade staircase—and partly, it was, as the French rather awkwardly translate it, a collection "declined" from Galliano's triumphant "Madame Butterfly" haute couture collection for Spring. To "decline," in fashion-Franglais, means to take the wildly expensive handcrafted fantasies of couture and turn them into factory-produced lookie-likeys. Sometimes "declension" (here and elsewhere) can actually lead to decline, i.e.: disappointing commercial husks of the original thought. But now, in a flurry of energy and application, Galliano has upped the ante for Dior, reproducing believably close simulacra of such details as the origami-folding (see the suit pockets) and shortened versions of the multitiered ruffled skirts seen in his couture.

There was showiness and chic in this. The python jackets and ostrich swing coats with sleeves built out in fox were the declarative side, but a sensuous womanliness came through too. Galliano's draping, ingeniously wrapped to the hip in a purple skirtsuit and a chartreuse day dress, or deployed as one-shouldered asymmetries and sashes for cocktail and evening, created husband-hunting outfits of a type guaranteed to net results, be it 1947 or 2007.

– Sarah Mower

Or is she talking around the subject

style.com

 

[brian]

^ camp-fabulous...glorious.....

 

[GivenchyPrincess]

Some of it is a bit over the top and tacky but there are some pieces that are going to look wonderful on the right woman. I'm loving the references to the Haute Couture, but I wish that he'd used a more subtle colour palette.

The shoes are very cool.

 

[EdanChrysler]

Personally I've come to accept the fact that no, Galliano will ever tire of the loud colours: it's become part of his definition of his aesthetic for Dior. I agree that in some respects the loud colours come across as being a bit tacky, or simple too loud for comfort, but to call them "cheap" is a bit too drastic. As Karl Lagerfeld put it, "What a depressing word. If you're cheap, nothing helps." (that was from his H&M ad, in case you weren't aware) I honestly had no problems with the colours at all for the simple reason that I had pretty much come to anticipate them. Also for accusations against the collection being a rehash or bad-taste carbon-copying of the couture collection, it's only fair to note that the time gap between his presentation of HC S/S 2007 and this RTW F/W 2007 collection is relatively short. Assuming he had to deal with both collections at the same time, and he would spend slightly more effort on the couture collection (which we all know is supposed to make that vital first impression), it's inevitable that his ideas all cross over into his RTW collection.

Admittedly, however, I personally find this collection quite pretty, but that's just about it. I wish there was a little bit more cohesiveness in the collection - S/S 2007 was amazing in that respect, and F/W 2006 too, in fact. There are a lot of great pieces here and there, but not strong enough to give the collection that vital X-Factor. In this respect, I think S/S 2006 and S/S 2007 fared much, much better.

 

[Diorling]

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.

While I agree with you that they are oohing and ahhing for no reason. I dont agree that we get all excited over candy colors, it's just that Galliano has such an amazing sense of color, he always picks the most GORGEOUS colors, and when I say gorgeous I mean, these colors in person are just...STUNNING, a swatch of fabric from the couture show could make me gasp. Well, not these colors, these colors are all just slightly off.

It's just very heavy, very very heavy.

Actually, I would've loved to see John do Joan Crawford again, it seems perfect now that mega-shoulders are coming back in.

 

[unspoiledbird]

All I can say is that I'm surprised I don't loathe it; Galliano will never be astounding for me, but I liked his concept for his HC show, and this isn't bad either. I guess I don't really get him, never will, haha.

 

[saann]

I love the accessories and the detailing <3

 

[Melly5525]

^Yes me too , I love all the handbags and the great colors they comes in, and I liked the he continued the python platforms he did for spring in new colors.

 

[Zazie]

While I agree with you that they are oohing and ahhing for no reason. I dont agree that we get all excited over candy colors, it's just that Galliano has such an amazing sense of color, he always picks the most GORGEOUS colors, and when I say gorgeous I mean, these colors in person are just...STUNNING, a swatch of fabric from the couture show could make me gasp. Well, not these colors, these colors are all just slightly off.

It's just very heavy, very very heavy.

Actually, I would've loved to see John do Joan Crawford again, it seems perfect now that mega-shoulders are coming back in.

Actually, the colours are the least of my objections, and I agree, the HC colours were gorgeous, but they were lifted from the traditional colours used in kimonos!

It is the rest of it, so spectacularly tacky, so badly constructed, so cliche "movie star" glamour even Marchesa couldn't do it, and without a shred of his usual "dragqueen" humour...

It would be so lovely to see a genuine commitment to the old-world Joan Crawford style - Galliano isn't an avant-garde after all - but the style wasn't at all like this. It was truly simpler, elegant (even severe!), and the cut of the suits IMPECCABLE. The women looked feminine but still strong, intelligent and patrician, not like these dumb blonde "gold-diggers" style. My current "Joan Crawford" is Martin Margiela's collection....so elegant, punk and COOL.

Btw, Cathy Horyn wrote a gushing review that makes me question her journalistic integrity and fundamentals.

Poor Diorling - I do wish for you a better Dior collection next time.

 

[cuppycakes]

i like it but i don't think it's very wearable

 

[Bidwell]

Some of the skirt suits are wearable if only in black.
Speaking of black, the whole film noir look could be done in a realistic way, sans the cage corset or football shoulders...
Bright shots of color is current so I can understand how that got mixed up in the collection.
"Restraint" hasn't been a buzzword at DIOR since Saint Laurent left there anyway....

 

[Mr-Dale]

The vid's up!

 

[Ceptuouse]

^ Thanks their website's gone a bit strange What happened to the background...the nice fonts, or maybe it's just me and everyone else thinks its better

 

[cierrughhh]

Finally Some Color!

 

[Ceptuouse]

What was up with Anna Wintour? She leaves the show really early, you see her run across the video Maybe she didnt like it

 

[Salvatore]

I liked the show. The music was good, however Jeremy Healy is getting so lazy with soundtracks at Dior! Some of the pieces did not move like I expected them to. They were too stiff for me. But it was good! And obviously models do not know how to file out. Talk about traffic jam! They just jump in front of each other. Somehow that made the clothes look a bit cheaper.