Christian Dior S/S 2006 Paris

[Mr-Dale]

Now we can judge:

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[Mr-Dale]

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[Mr-Dale]

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[Mr-Dale]

Now that I have seen it all I have to say that I like it. Like birdofpraise put out, there is a sad, somber feeling about tjis collection which I really like. It is quite strange to see an entire collection being based on one particular dress, but I love how he did that. Sometimes it still resembles the couture collection too much, like in the bustier and a few of the opening looks. The horrors in this collection are the orange and pink dye-down minidresses like the one in post #82. A seethrough number on Hana and one piece where there is too much lace on Iselin.

Plus: I have not spotted one CD monogram in this collection. Not on the colthes, nor on the bags or on the shoes. Finally!

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[yourbestfriend]

I like it even more, it may not be everyones taste but theres just something about it.....

 

[Ceptuouse]

some more images from gettyimages.com

I quite like some of it - im not sure about the bags though and some other things i dont like but i think its nice overall...

 

[Ghost]

OH MY GOD i thought this collection is pretty crap with those gettyimages earlier.

but when i see the full pics, it's really amazing.....i love it....simple colours yet looks not simple.

if u see galliano now, he's really following the image of the house. you know it's dior
i think he decided to save his flamboyant shocking collections for his own label. but that's pretty bad. i also want to see them on dior runway

i want to see the shoes i see little white heels with ribbon

 

[Ceptuouse]

some details from style.com

 

[Ceptuouse]

style.com review

PARIS, October 4, 2005 – The setting and the preliminaries were more akin to a triumphal French state occasion than a fashion show, as a veritable who's who of Parisian society, gasping and gossiping, filed in to get their first look at the soaring nineteenth-century glass-and-steel splendor of the newly renovated Grand Palais. In a way, they had gathered there for a ritual steeped in a sense of national pride: the Christian Dior spring collection, an event garlanded with the kind of pomp and power only the French can bestow upon the business of fashion. Was that why John Galliano was on his best behavior? No silly pranks, breakneck platforms, scary makeup, or crazy, colliding references this season. Instead, what he proposed was a businesslike program for maximizing the potential of a single idea in his last couture collection: the black-lace-over-nude dress that Kate Moss wore this summer to the Met gala.

That one idea spun out through short dresses, drapier than the corseted original, and then in every possible garment and fabric treatment, from jackets and coats to jeans and, finally, a bustier bikini. Having wrung the last possible drop of inspiration out of the lace, Galliano moved on to big, bubbly organza blouses and to playing about with rainbows of degraded pinks—nude to fuchsia or nude to orange—to tinge the hems of short dresses and airy gowns and vary the monotony of all that flesh-colored floatiness.

But of course, there was another unmissable footnote to this thoroughly commercial plan. That, of course, is the competition-whacking Dior saddle bag—now displaying a softness that cleverly demonstrates its ability to adapt to fashion's every twist and turn.

– Sarah Mower

 

[Lena]

now that i've seen it all, i hate it even more ..
not even the bags worth much and those brown wooden sandals.. how ugly was that ?

terrible and tired collection

 

[bart]

I'm incredibly disapointed at the manner in which Fall's simply gorgeous couture collection has "translated" into this ready-to-wear show. This is uninspired, bland, cheap and boring. I don't like one single piece, and that's rare, even for Galliano.

 

[mteb123]

not as bad as l thought it was at first, but i still think it could've been better

 

[Zazie]

There's something a little Moss-y, a little beaten up, a little downtroden about this. I would have never thought that Galliano would do a 'sad' collection but he's working through something here. There's something a little less fantasy and bit more realistic about his approach that I admire.

I really like this commentary. It hits me right away that the overdone tackiness is gone, and the nude dresses are beautifully cut but also a little shabby, without any hint of "bohemia". A bit soulful, melancholic, poetic, yet totally modern and the outsized Gulliver-esque leather jackets are provocative, but I've seen another young designer did it last season to great effect, so no points for originality. I'm glad to see a bit of the old Galliano back from the time (decades ago, I think) when he was doing amazing asymmetrical barely there dresses.

Kate Moss post cocaine-bust, who fell down to earth, the Marianne Faithful of our age. Sigh.

 

[anaisanais]

....

 

[iluvjeisa]

Of course, there's quality here. But I just don't like beige. Not even Galliano can make me like it B) But man, how great Caroline T looks there. Must be the best bod in the universe

 

[LeLuna]

I love it!
except a few of them... the rest is okay

 

[Nelly Cat]

not as bad as l thought it was at first, but i still think it could've been better

My thoughts exactly. I like it better after seeing the whole collection, but it doesn't excite me.

 

[MissAnia]

I found few interesting pieces here but the rest is rather ugly....

 

[urd]

now that I've seen it all I'm starting to like it. jackets and shoes are very cute. and I like the colours. but after I've seen balenciaga, no way anything can beat that..

 

[pradaromance]

i love the feeling of this collection.

i really loved the shapes, the dresses seem to fall at the perfect length, im in love with the snakeskin trimmed coats, the light airy dresses look great too, i really want to see the detailing in person
i love the ombre bubble skirt in tans/browns, and the swirls in the blouses/tunics are so interesting.

and of course, the white pumps