Who Will Succeed John Galliano At Dior? #2 *Update Raf Simons Offically Hired*

[alice]

Thank you alice!
Christian Lacroix was my choice from the very beginning. But I was shot down by posts telling me he was too old (!) and not sexy enough (!?).
The man has and can bring sophisticated edgy glamour back to Dior that the less experienced designers can't.
He doesn't go to that cartoon or costume place John did but people, please take a look back at his exquisite embroidered dresses, outrageously gorgeous color/pattern combinations and sweeping gowns. Maybe not the "showman", but he's as close to the classic Dior as one could get.
It may just change some minds about age and sexy versus talent.
AND Lacroix seems available!
JMO
BTW... I love, love, love the genius John Galliano and still can't believe this devastating fall from grace.​

I also love John Galliano so much but obviously his work was getting worse and worse (I mean more and more boring). It's time for Dior to find someone to add some new elements for Dior. I don't think Lacroix's work is old at all. His work is always interesting but still resplendent.

 

[alice]

Ok don't stone me, but I kinda want Oscar de La Renta to take the wheel at Dior now. At least he's been in the industry for a good long while, knows what he's doing and has done Couture before.

Oscar de La Renta is also a good choice. Although I don't really like his work, he is experienced. (IMO, his work is a bit boring.) I believe that his work can't be worse than the HC show this season. BTW, I still prefer Lacroix.

 

[angel222]

Tisci really a done deal?

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle-fashion/stylenews/John+Galliano-12420.html

LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, who also runs Dior says the company are looking for someone who will make the ''best choices'' for the label to take over from John Galliano. Dior without John Galliano has been compared to an orchestra without a conductor.


The troubled designer was fired as the label's creative director in March after a video showed him apparently drunk, telling a woman in a cafe he "loved Hitler" and while the company is coping without a successor for now, LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, who also runs Dior, believes they need to appoint someone new soon. He said: "I think we have the equivalent of the Vienna Philharmonic. From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good. But that cannot last forever. We want to [make] the best choice for the house and find the best conductor."

"We want to [make] the best choice for the house and find the best conductor"​

CEO Sidney Toledano revealed the company is looking for a replacement but want to ensure they make the perfect choice although he did praise the label's "technical people" for their hard work. He said: "A lot of schools produce designers but the technical people - this is what we have to protect. They work very hard here, and they live outside of Paris. They are not living like the designer. They are simple people. Some of them have a difficult life. They have their feet on the ground. They're sustaining the house."

 

[CholoChic]

Why is it difficult to assume that Dior is nothing wihtout Galliano, at least rigt now?
This is obvious to all who follow the Dior house.

But I feel that they make stupid comparisons.
John Galliano as compared to the conductor of the Philharmonic's silly.
Why only today they remember the shop-floor workers who cut and sew making copies of the clothes?
I think it's wonderful the work at the ateliers they do, but Bernault says it trying to minimize the lack of John Galliano.

John Galliano not only leads the Philharmonic he also writes songs for the Philharmonic. The ateliers dont invent anything it is the mind of the designer who make the main work.

They are so concerned about money that they do not stop to see the human side of the artist who make won them much, much money and gave a big shine to the Dior house.

 

[Niusity]

IMO Christian Lacroix would be perfect for Dior. And also I think that his company didn't work out because of Dior.

 

[gesyada]

hmm what do you guys think about gaytten's works?

 

[CholoChic]

^well darling, "He´s a sweetheart but he is not a designer"

 

[Dkammern]

^^go Horyn!! B)

 

[CholoChic]

^I dont know who fashion critic was more cruel...

 

[agee]

I have been very vocal about Tisci having the inside track to succeed Galliano at Dior and it won't be a shock if that happens, but now I am starting to think that Gaytten is a contender as well, I guess it is going to boil down to whether or not they think that it is best to bring in an outsider or should the job go to an insider a la Burton (McQueen), Giannini (Gucci) and Piccioli and Chiuri (Valentino).

 

[angel222]

If you believe the ongoing rumors Phoebe Philo is quietly being considered to give the brand a woman's touch. If that were true they should open up the flood gates and consider other women designers too.

 

[Crying Diamonds]

...or should the job go to an insider a la Burton (McQueen), Giannini (Gucci) and Piccioli and Chiuri (Valentino).

Seeing those three names beside each other stokes my vehemence against an insider successor, for the only piece of work I fully admired from any of the them in all of the combined years they have been designing was the Duchess of Cambridge's wedding dress by Sarah Burton for McQueen.
I will be deeply offended if the creative position at another great House is inherited by another worker with insipid dreams.. though I'm sure I would be further insulted if Dior was taken over by the man who decided that the Haute Couture collection for winter was good enough to present to the world.

 

[agee]

The hate for the Gucci and particularly the Valentino creative directors is legion on tFS, and yet these labels are doing well, I don't remember my sources but I have seen that stated about both brands. There is a thread in another forum about a comment that Arnault made about the end of star designers, so he may be softening the ground for either an insider or a low-key designer to be the next lead designer at Dior.

 

[t-rex]

What makes a low-key designer? Would Philo be one? Everyone knows her name but she's not out there, everywhere, like Lagerfeld

 

[Squizree]

The hate for the Gucci and particularly the Valentino creative directors is legion on tFS, and yet these labels are doing well, I don't remember my sources but I have seen that stated about both brands. There is a thread in another forum about a comment that Arnault made about the end of star designers, so he may be softening the ground for either an insider or a low-key designer to be the next lead designer at Dior.

Nobody's questioning these designers' ability to make profitable collections. In fact, everybody knows Giannini is a very commercially satisfying designer. The point in question is at what cost are these designers producing this profit?
Valentino has been bleached lifeless (quite literally!) and Gucci has become nothing but trend-wh*re bling. I'm not too sure what the McQueen issue is, but from what I understand Burton doesn't seem to propelling the brand at any great speed.

 

[agee]

^ Burton took over McQueen under tragic circumstances around eighteen months ago, so it is too early to label her an overall success or failure, but she has been doing darn good thus far. Your question, "at what cost are these designers producing this profit?" is valid, but let's not get it twisted Gucci is a shoe, handbag, luggage and other accessories company that does a little fashion and fragrance on the side, and it is the creative director of the women's lines charge to be part of the machine that generates the profits that you referred to. All Valentino needs to do is dress the It girls of the moment and that's what going on over there, so that's all good too.

 

[Fernini]

'é dado como certo que Marc Jacobs é o novo diretor artistico da Dior! Fontes quentes do veräo europeu'

@GB65

 

[TREVOFASHIONISTO]

What makes a low-key designer? Would Philo be one? Everyone knows her name but she's not out there, everywhere, like Lagerfeld

yes basically any designer who is just about designing and not about celebrity status as well.

 

[tayloryepp]

Marc Jacobs rumors are still flying around apparently.. not sure what to believe

 

[valliaddict]

I know Theysken's is not even on the Dior radar, but he would be sooooo fantastic. I hope the high fashion industry will one day welcome him back with open arms. When he was at Rochas & Nina Ricci, his clothes were beautiful, but not sellable. Now that he is at Theory, he has proven that he can make sellable clothing. He is definitely the best choice. Can you just imagine what his couture would look like?!?!