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

[MsCrow]

I feel at present there are no designers that interest me (Albez etc) that I care to see at Dior. The whole fiasco has reminded me how cruddy LVMH are and I'd feel sorry for any designer taking on that workload with the potential restrictions it entails. I'd love to see Lacroix land SOMEWHERE back in fashion land, I have a soft spot for him; but not at Dior.

 

[Mr. Fabulous]

I'm surprised people have mentioned Lacroix only because I think he's actually TOO GOOD for Dior and LVMH. It wouldn't be a good fit partner wise, but he would rock the House of Dior for sure!!

 

[taz]

there is a race to Dior helm,,, but i guess it might be only for YSL men as Yves himself once was choosen by Mr.Dior , well According to vogue.co.uk:

STEFANO PILATI is the favourite to take over from John Galliano at Christian Dior. Bookmakers Paddy Power have revealed that the current Yves Saint Laurent creative director is the current odds leader at 11/8 followed by Hedi Slimane at 9/4.

 

[nastassia]

It would be interesting to see Pilati doing Couture... and Slimane at YSL (I would love that actually !)

 

[Pricciao]

again I want to say there's no way Lacroix back to do fashionweek, and he's not a member in LVMH since long time ago, I really don't see it happen. Bernard Arnault always finds someone young, fresh and hot to take control of a massive brand, I bet that's someone appear once but recently not in the fashion business or someone from St. Martin/ ITS.

 

[modela]

How about Paulo Melim Andersson ?

 

[Prairie]

I'm really interested to know how they will be presenting their Fall 2011 collection made by John without John.

 

[mistress_f]

i thought about stefano possibly taking over but it didn't make any sense to me. i'm his biggest fan but I just don't see it working. it'll defnitely be interesting to see him deal with couture though

 

[Deleted member 7575]

Personally don't understand the Alexis Mabille suggestions, that would be worse than Rodarte.

 

[tanii94]

From that vogue.co.uk snippet - I'd rather prefer to see Slimane at Dior than Pilati.

I am intrigued to see who will take over from Galliano and what's gonna happen at the AW show. It's on Friday, isn't it?

 

[eugenius]

The ONLY connection I see w/ Lacroix & Dior is in the couture..But as far as making RTW, shoes, bags and any other number of other items under the Dior name, well, he hardly made that happen under his own name, so it's unlikely he can do that under another big fashion maison.

Hence, that's why I think Alber Elbaz would be a suitable candidate, from a creative standpoint (granted, he was up for grabs). He understands the current luxury goods market, he's well-adept at designing clothes that women respond positively to and, in terms of the couture, I'm sure he can take what's already been done in the atelier, both by John and his predecessors, and take that to the next level.

 

[mackos]

Pilati for Dior isn't something I would love to see, but then again, I can't think of any proper candidate at this very moment. I guess I'll just wait for the official announcement and then start to think about it.

Anyway, if he really was moving to Dior, I can only hope he'll manage to do better than he was doing for the last few seasons at YSL.

 

[Salvatore]

The ONLY connection I see w/ Lacroix & Dior is in the couture..But as far as making RTW, shoes, bags and any other number of other items under the Dior name, well, he hardly made that happen under his own name, so it's unlikely he can do that under another big fashion maison.

Hence, that's why I think Alber Elbaz would be a suitable candidate, from a creative standpoint (granted, he was up for grabs). He understands the current luxury goods market, he's well-adept at designing clothes that women respond positively to and, in terms of the couture, I'm sure he can take what's already been done in the atelier, both by John and his predecessors, and take that to the next level.

But you have to remember that Dior being that huge house it is, they have design teams for that Christian Lacroix would be the creative director to inspire those design teams I would imagine. It could definitely work I think. I doubt Lacroix would want the job, though, as he would be amazing there !

 

[dodencebt]

I wonder why no one has mentioned this before, cause it sure does sound fishy to me.
The company needs a young designer from their LVMH group to replace Galliano at Dior. Why didn't anyone think of Zac Posen? (a bad choice if you ask me, cause I hate Posen's tackiness, but HIGHLY believable).
Dior makes money from accessories and they need commercial material sent down the runway, which Posen can definitely provide. Also he is used to budget limits and I am sure he is an easy controllable designer when it comes to collections.
Plus he's a Wintour favorite.
The Posen house has been under LVMH and Dior S.A. since 2001:

"After his first runway show in 2001, Posen was courted by fashion titans Yves Carcelle (President of LVMH Fashion Group) and Sidney Toledano (Chief Executive Officer and Director of Christian Dior S.A.)"
- Wikipedia

And to top all that, Zac Posen suddenly decided to move his shows from New York to Paris for Spring 2011, a season before this Galliano thing happened just because he "loves couture and Paris".
Am I the only one who thinks the situation is a little weird?

 

[Salvatore]

If Posen ...............................

I cannot.

Please, no.

 

[mistress_f]

I wonder why no one has mentioned this before, cause it sure does sound fishy to me.
The company needs a young designer from their LVMH group to replace Galliano at Dior. Why didn't anyone think of Zac Posen? (a bad choice if you ask me, cause I hate Posen's tackiness, but HIGHLY believable).
Dior makes money from accessories and they need commercial material sent down the runway, which Posen can definitely provide. Also he is used to budget limits and I am sure he is an easy controllable designer when it comes to collections.
Plus he's a Wintour favorite.
The Posen house has been under LVMH and Dior S.A. since 2001:

"After his first runway show in 2001, Posen was courted by fashion titans Yves Carcelle (President of LVMH Fashion Group) and Sidney Toledano (Chief Executive Officer and Director of Christian Dior S.A.)"
- Wikipedia

And to top all that, Zac Posen suddenly decided to move his shows from New York to Paris for Spring 2011, a season before this Galliano thing happened just because he "loves couture and Paris".
Am I the only one who thinks the situation is a little weird?

dear god, not Posen. anyone but him, really. i could also accept marc to do it.

 

[StoneSkipper]

I would *********** if that actually happened.

 

[honeyisle]

oh come on

 

[Jacque Marcel]

I would rather have an in house team over zposen. That would be dreadful.

 

[mackos]

Let Zac Posen present a decent collection from his own line first, then we can talk about anything else.

Frankly, the only person I would see as a perfect one would be Alber Elbaz. I can only imagine what his sixth sense could do with Christian Dior heritage, and a vision of this man doing couture already sends the chills down my spine. I suppose that would mean leaving Lanvin, though, so it's completely out of the question anyway.