Christian Dior S/S 2016 Paris

[Creative]

^For my information, where do you hear complaining about ANY brand outside tfs?

Just curious.

 

[CholoChic]

Very ugly to me, basic and from a very bad taste so it will sell well.

 

[jescajade]

Good thing I hear he's on his way out...

do tell!

 

[Deleted member 130879]

And I hope they finally hire Theyskens and his relevant vision of 50's couture.

OMG, yes! I miss him so much. I would rather see him at Givenchy but anywhere, really, anywhere!

 

[anlabe32]

Quite a few lovely pieces. Love the cropped sweaters somehow.

I don't want him to leave Dior.

 

[CrisGalaxy]

People want SO BAD for this brand to be avant-garde again that they can't accept the fact that it can also be minimalist. There's more than one interpretation for the Dior code.

 

[Sweet rus]

If I didn't know it was Dior, I would say it's a pretty good collection, clean, fresh, wearable, but it is the brand that no way I can associate with such festive of boredom and I can not come to terms that the house famous for bringing back and embracing the idea of femininity and dressing up for women is soon to be borderline minimalist

 

[ogepma]

What a stunningly beautiful and intriguing collection. I absolutely love this at first sight, unlike the last collection which took months to grow on me. The details here are impeccable. I love how he played around with pleats here. There was a lot of power but at the same time, it was very serene. Raf's vision for Dior is set now, I am starting to see more consistency in his work. The experimentation is still there but it doesn't overshadow the realism in his direction, this is what Dior needs now IMO.

As for the dislikes here; totally predictable as long as it is designed by Raf Simons. I can understand constructive criticism (much better when if it can be backed up with facts but this is fashion, it's very subjective) but to claim that the type of woman designed for here doesn't exist etc, is highly baffling and makes me wonder. I guess people will see and feel what they want, regardless.

 

[gazebo]

 

[Creative]

People want SO BAD for this brand to be avant-garde again that they can't accept the fact that it can also be minimalist. There's more than one interpretation for the Dior code.

But Dior was never avant-garde, no? And I actually like minimalism as Raf did it at Jil Sander. His first collection for Jil was as simple as it gets yet it was amazing. S/S 2008 was genius. F/W 11 was pure love. Although what he did was never minimalism for me. In fact, I wouldn't call Raf shows for Dior minimalistic.

So that's not the problem at all. The problem is that since he left Jil it looks like LVMH changed his brain for another one. He doesn't even know how to make a collection anymore. He is boring and has nothing interesting to say.

 

[HeatherAnne]

People want SO BAD for this brand to be avant-garde again that they can't accept the fact that it can also be minimalist.

You're calling this minimal? Okay... I'm calling it clinically dull.

 

[Spike413]

I actually like some of that horizontal pinstripe tailoring. It's chic and unpretentious.

That said his Dior woman is as cold and antiseptic as ever. There's very little vibrancy or liveliness chez Dior, and beyond the OTT, theatrical and dramatic stuff that people associate the house with thanks to the Galliano era, Dior's clothes -- from 1947 onward -- had a very lively, vivacious spirit that just ain't here. I still haven't been convinced that Raf's Dior is the right Dior. It's using its head and not its heart.

 

[CholoChic]

Another nonorgasmic collection.

 

[Fashionstuff]

A few pieces maybe. It's simply boring.
All collections Simons did for Dior were boring.
Maybe because of- or after Galliano's epoch -vision of Maison Dior.

 

[Jacque Marcel]

He is the master of cold, clinical ice queens. The flowers are always pretty at Dior.

 

[Pricciao]

OMG, yes! I miss him so much. I would rather see him at Givenchy but anywhere, really, anywhere!

I don't think he's going to anytime soon, got a lot of personal projects to do, and he's having fun.

 

[IZ uS]

LOVE IT!!

 

[khyrk]

I love the bags.

 

[constanceMafioso]

BTW, Kering is always releasing numbers about how the rtw lines of Gucci and Saint Laurent are doing... About how much the sales are up... LVMH did it with Céline...

Yet... Dior? They only say the HC is doing fine. No numbers. No nothing (for the rtw I mean). Weird.

Yeah. Christian Dior is a holding too in which LVMH has shares (to me) but true I've never seen a precise financial report on Dior's fashion segment.

I'm interested in the numbers too since the Raf era.

Dior has become so extremely boring I'd have a hard time believing he'd be outselling Galliano's with these.

Celebs... who get paid to wear it.

It-girls are paid too...

This.

And, celebs are the worst people on this whole planet earth to trust on the viability of a product or a service.

 

[dior_couture1245]

It's just all so freaking dull. Does Raf's Dior woman have a pulse?