Dior Homme F/W 06.07 Paris

[dorien]

so
when does this collection go on sale?

late july - august... .

 

[Baizilla]

Are you in the right thread, dorien? I mean.. this is FW 06..

 

[Honey~Blade]

I think he might mean when does the collection hit stores

 

[Baizilla]

oh, hehe..

then yeah, late july - august

 

[lee86]

Last year i picked up 'The end' Tee on May 30th. I rememeber it because it was the day before i went away. Selfridges had a rack of FW stuff at that point. So some stuff will hit stores earlier than July.

 

[Johnny]

Well, it is fur...and I doubt it it beaver.

Yes I agree. Slimane's not a fan of the beaver, as I understand it.

 

[djork]

Yes I agree. Slimane's not a fan of the beaver, as I understand it.

 

[dorien]

I think he might mean when does the collection hit stores

yeah that is what i meant,
thanx for the info. i should be in vegas in august so i might just do some shopping. B) before they start running out of smalls

 

[Chinor1z]

Yes I agree. Slimane's not a fan of the beaver, as I understand it.

I have to give you karma for that line. It's absolute genius

 

[Waldner]

Does anyone know when FF06 will hit the stores?
I am planning a trip to paris this summer and I want to pick up a jacket or some outerwear from DH.

Also, are there any stores in paris where you can buy Number9 clothes?

 

[Baizilla]

You can get N(N) at L'Eclaireur ( www.leclaireur.com )



the fw06 collection should be available in stores in august, if I'm not mistaken

 

[Waldner]

So they are later this year than usual? Last year FW was avaliable in Osaka on the 17th of july but I*m pretty sure it was avaliable in Dior Homme boutiques in Europe at last a month earlier than japan.

btw, thank you for the link

 

[S+arck]

guys.
i was looking thru ebay.... and i found this.. looks werid.. as i never seen this colour print before.... fake?

 

[Baizilla]

S+ark : eBay links are not allowed. Post a picture or an item number instead.

 

[eodlover]

FW06 Collection already available in Louisaviaroma!

 

[Qtinez7]

FW06 Collection already available in Louisaviaroma!

you're kdding.....already? where is that exactly and whenyou do think it will hit america

 

[Baizilla]

guys.. look in the Dior Homme Shop Till You Drop thread.. they've already discussed it for 1 day

 

[neoxam]

I will be posting my complete thoughts about this collection later once I´ve got more time to post, to be honest, I just arrived from Paris and haven´t read through everybody´s comments so far. I missed TFS a lot!!

To sum it all up; I was more than glad about the general shift towards classicism, several buyers that I knew were getting sick and tired of the obvious rock star references of the last two years (and so was I, I agree with everybody else´s points about thrift shop buying and stylist tricks). The presentation was much more toned-down than usual Dior presentations, no fancy installations, lighting, stage design etc., just that burning "thing" in the back.

Many of the runway looks were very subtle in terms of detailing, the first cropped jacket that opened the show had to be my favourite, it had a slight peplum shape that was reinforced by some sort of handstitched "pillows" to give it additional shape and a slight volume in the front, while the waist was very slim-cut. It reminded me nicely of the original "New Look" jacket that Christian Dior did in the early 1950ies. Indeed, some of the fabrics were coming from Monsieur Dior´s own debut collection in the late 1940ies, one of the floral jacquards was a direct replica of a cloth that he used back than. I understand that this doesn´t sound very convincing, keeping in mind that we are talking about menswear, but I have to say, it worked well on a man with a small frame. I tryed it on in the showroom together with what I had on myself (black skinny jeans and just a tee-shirt underneath, together with converse) and it worked. So yeah, I definitely see some of these items as incomplicated in terms of wearability.

There were several pieces that I enjoyed a lot and that I see people wearing by next season, such as the elongated tweed trenchcoat with deep neckline or the very cropped peacoat that had been shown with a cummerbund underneath. The short "Chanel" jacket was a definite winner as well and would go nicely in a very casual context.

As far as the tailcoats are concerned, I thought that they were a little too literally black-tie, less inventive than what Hedi had proposed in the past. I definitely don´t care for the formal eveningwear influences, but these pieces only offered very little interpretation in terms of styling, I don´t see them with jeans for a daily occassion. Maybe the one in grey felt, but that´s about it. I also didn´t like the obvious trompe l´oeill effects on the tailcoats that were giving the idea of a cut, they seemed a little forced to me.

The epitome of bad taste for me were definitely those horrendous jeans, with the cut-off denim waistband. Pardon me, but that´s what I definitely think would belong to either DSquared or Dolce, not Dior - there were by far nicer denims in the showroom, such as a washed black cotton satin jeans that were almost the same as the ones that Mick Jagger wore in blue some months back, but in black (they were also offered in a beautiful but less easy to pull of pearl shade). They also introduced a new shape that had only 17cm leg openings (obviously a nod to the japanese market), but they were not really convincing as the look was practically that of a pair of black leggings (did I mention they were insanely stretchy?).

And to stir up the rumours; Dior is concidering to re-model the 44 sizes, they are probably making them more true to the runway, so obviously more skinny than before (as far as I hear, that was a request by the japanese clients that must be like 90% of the buyers of these sizes).

Are the 17cm version of the japanese jeans available yet? I saw the japanese jeans on both Brown's fashion and luisviaroma. They are both described as 19cm. I like the shape of the glitter jeans and it is 17cm opening. That one really fits me.

 

[djork]

FW06 Collection already available in Louisaviaroma!

available for pre-order, which ships in september.

 

[malchichikov]

This collection made me Wilde. The only thing this show was missing would have to be adhesive vampiric fangs and a runway in Highgate. Bram Stokeresque and sexy. I'm stocking up on this collection... as the Spring Summer... was great as always, but as many have already said... a cumulative of Hedi's career at DH.

I hope I will be able to procure some of the smaller shirt sizes without resorting to violence... if I'm going to find anything smaller than 37, I may need to go shopping with Boris Kolesnikov... and a Kalashnikov.

some backstage news for you all

hair is short, all slicked with gel and spray

clothes BLACK suits, some white shirts
victorian style

a BIG BIG brown fur jacket

moss is gonna be there

peace

i have many photos to post soon