Christian Dior Haute Couture S/S 09 Paris

[fiqary]

Oh god the make up....awful.

The whole collection is pretty disappointing.

I expect more to be honet.

 

[FogUponLA]

He's back! Maybe not in a big way, but that's what he needed. The silhouettes are (for the most part) typical for dior but he held himself back where he needed and he pumped up the volume where it called for it. Some of those satin numbers look poorly constructed at the hem though. The makeup and the hair is PERFECT because it doesn't distract the clothing in any way. The runway is soooo Galliano for Dior. He needed this collection. I honestly feel confidence in Galliano that I haven't felt in years. I'm not a fan of the shoes though...the sculptural quality of his shoes lately is kinda getting old.

 

[Salvatore]

Now after seeing it all, it is better than the most recent seasons, but not as good as let's say around 2006. The thing I notice is that there is too much focus on one cut/technique. At least 15 of the pieces used the same technique to get the volume, but just used different colours and placement sometimes. That annoys me! While it is better, I hope for more variety like before!

 

[FashionPower]

The collection is also on style.it
http://www.style.it/cont/moda/sfilate/sfilate.aspx?stagione=154&tipo_ogg=0&ric=collezioni&stil=9939

 

[Street_a_Licious]

it's..... nice, pretty, beautiful, but like Spike said, there's hardly anything we haven't seen in the most recent Couture collections. i like that he went lighter on the embroidery, and the lack of promdresses.

some of those gowns remind me of the final dresses Dolce seems to be sending down their runways in the recent collections. and while it's truly great for Pret a Porter, it's pretty lame for Haute Couture.

 

[TraiT]

Anyway, no more black sheer dress for tanya anymore?

 

[bittercain]

may i say that it's another pretended renewal or something else?
John has losed his talent and imagination far away beyond my expectation

 

[rip_ian curtis]

i love the simplicity of some of the dresses. the white narrow gowns and the white knee-lenght number -spectacular!

 

[shirleebee]

this is grand

 

[Spark]

I know I shouldn't love it, but I do! I've always had a weakness for historical influence and this is right on the money!

 

[espritDEcouture]

It's like porcelain goodness!

 

[Mr-Dale]

I think this isn´t better than last season. Last season was pretty good IMO and I think this one has a lot of similarities to FW 0809. The look on Jourdan is a spitting image of what Heidi wore last season....the focus is again on the jacket with a belted waist, even though it doesn´t scream Bar Suit as much as the previous collection did. Some of the ballgowns and eveningwear is very beautiful, I have to admit. But it´s not very new and, again, it just has the same feeling as the previous collection.

Oh and Vermeer was Dutch, not Flemish, miss Hilary Alexander

 

[KKnardi]

It is a grim, gray period of recession - and the house of Christian Dior is sending out dresses bouncing jubilantly with meters of material. And no, this is not Dior's defiant New Look of 1947, but John Galliano's haute couture for summer 2009.

So much for austerity chic! The couture shows opened in Paris on Monday with "Let them eat cake" delirium in the face of global gloom. Yet the cakes were so delicious, so light, sweet and delicately made that you could do nothing but smile benignly.

Substitute a sugar rush of lacy collars, organza cornets and meringue-light crinolines served up on a blue and white delft plate patterned with tulips - and there you have the extreme fashion that Galliano sent out for Dior.

In straitened circumstances, was it mad? Yes, but it was magic.

"Something to make people dream," Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, said backstage, while predicting that the crisis would not begin to recede until the end of 2010.

The actress Mischa Barton drooled over the dresses, while the French star Marion Cotillard said more cautiously, "Not all of them - but the white."

She was referring to the slender outfits that punctuated the full skirts that were very Dior from the 1950s. Other crinoline fantasies could have come from the Second Empire, give or take those horns of plenty riding up to bare the thigh, as the models teetered on their curlicue-heel shoes.

Galliano is a dreamer and, impossible though it might sound to be eloquent with elegance in this bleak period for the world's economies, he sent out a beautiful show. A backdrop of stained glass, to meld with the hats, collars and big sleeves absorbed from Flemish painting, gave a freshness to what could have seemed at first glance mere costume-party clothes.

Citing as inspiration the posture in Van Dyck's noble portraits and the luminous colors of Vermeer, Galliano referred also to "reaching the soul of Christian Dior," by unpicking some historical outfits.

From the short yellow dress with its curving cornets that opened the show, though a scarlet woman satin cocktail dress, to black ribbons threaded though a full-skirted white dress, the models, with their frizz of curls, looked sweetly romantic.

Tough times tend to bring out feminine frivolity, especially in Paris. Yet the couture season is reduced to just three days and seems inexorably on its way out. But if the role of couture is to titivate a dry palette - and maybe to make women fall irredeemably in love with fashion, Galliano did that for 21st-century Dior.

suzy menkes, www.iht.com

 

[espritDEcouture]

I'm become so jaded with Galliano's work for Dior I think I'm eager to lap up whatever he gives me that shows a shade of what he is capable of. I suppose I love this collection because it's a "fantasy." I'm silly and would much rather go for this than anything "austerity chic" right now.

 

[Brighid]

I think I love it! Especially the final dress on Bruna - it's just wonderful

 

[dumbfairy]

When I opened this I expected to see completly over the top in your face garish designs but this is absolutly goregous,though its still very eye catching I think its far more understated than usual. Definetly feeling the Dutch connection

 

[irulan]

Nah. Like every critical voice said before, it's the same old thing.
When I think of Vermeer and fashion I think of this:

style.com

A little more risky would have been good. It reminds me a lot of Dolce & Gabbana as well:

style.com

Anyone?

 

[JordanB]

All of it is incredibly beautiful.

 

[user.n.]

Nah. Like every critical voice said before, it's the same old thing.
When I think of Vermeer and fashion I think of this:

style.com

A little more risky would have been good. It reminds me a lot of Dolce & Gabbana as well:

style.com

Anyone?

Yeah, Jacobs did it (Fall 2007), but i don't want to compare haute couture with ready-to-wear.

 

[MyNameIs]

It's a big heavy handed, but overall, I think I like it. Though I have to say, it's nothing groundbreaking or especially original. Still, it's pretty, dramatic and big and it almost works.