Why do you like/hate Dior?

[Doctor Caroline]

It makes u look rich AND tacky

 

[Ghost]

Logos doesn't really make you look tacky and cheap
i think it is how you carry the look as long as you are not logoed from head to toe.
in fact, dior monogram is more beautiful than others like gucci and coach and fendi. at least the monograms has flowy look

the problem with anti-logo people here is that i don't think they are truly against the logos. it's just that they are thinking that if they're against the logos and monograms, this make them more fashionable than others.

 

[Doctor Caroline]

Logos doesn't really make you look tacky and cheap
i think it is how you carry the look as long as you are not logoed from head to toe.
in fact, dior monogram is more beautiful than others like gucci and coach and fendi. at least the monograms has flowy look

the problem with anti-logo people here is that i don't think they are truly against the logos. it's just that they are thinking that if they're against the logos and monograms, this make them more fashionable than others.

Wrong. I dont think that im more fashionable when I dont wear monograms.
If u wear head to toe monogram or logos it duznt mean u have style, it means u have money. Having a Dior monogramed dress will appeal to people because of its cost not its design even if the dress was awesome looking.

 

[Monmonde]

I don't like Dior simply because they're products and ads (esp cosmetic) are tacky.

 

[ShesElectric]

I don't think you're fully understanding what I'm trying to say. The more I clarify the more I'm misunderstood so I guess I'll just leave it at that.

 

[Lena]

Ah, but the fact is that wearing monogrammed clothes do not make you look rich, but cheap and tacky...

right, actually, wearing monrgams make one look terribly kitch and trying to pass as 'rich'
bitter truth but its mainly lower middle class or startlets that need recognition via wearing logos, a ride by local underground and you wont appreciate logos/monograms anymore, everyone and their grandmother sports fake diors (and not only)

but mainly for me it's in the image, the catwalk and the 'trying too hard'
i find Galliano much stuck in the 90's

 

[Arturo21]

Dior is all about trying too hard, look at Galliano himself - look at the way he dresses. That is the person behind Dior. Dior is his reflection.

self-explanatory.

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[Ghost]

thanks to his reflection

 

[ShesElectric]

Dior is all about trying too hard, look at Galliano himself - look at the way he dresses. That is the person behind Dior. Dior is his reflection.


self-explanatory.

Exactly! If that isn't tacky, I don't know what is! Image has much to do with a company's success, or it's failure.

 

[Baizilla]

Arturo... It is really true when people say an image says more than a thousand words!

 

[luckyme]

agreed, he is very flamboyant, but even with that if you look in between the lines, so to speak, every so often there is an awesome piece that works more as an accessory that a complete outfit, as long as there is no logo on it ;-). does that make sense?

 

[Baizilla]

^ yes it does...

the first outfit isn't that bad, but the rest...

 

[Arturo21]

^Thanks Bai for adding the credits, I forgot

 

[Ceptuouse]

Theres such a big gap between people who hate Dior and people who like it...Im kind of in the middle...is anyone else? I hate the commercial side of Dior, but I love the couture side...and I love the people who wear it with style, but I hate the people who make it tacky...Know what I mean? I personally like sitting on the fence, rather than on one side...

 

[cygnenoir]

My relationship with Dior is pretty dysfunctional!

I really love the work of Christian Dior, his design aesthetic and the classic beauty I think he represents. Perhaps I have read too many books about him and have created a weird nostalgia in my head for a time I never experienced.

So, by logical extension, I should feel some of that brand loyalty for Dior today. When Galliano puts obvious elements of Dior's "New Look" into his designs, I can't help but feel that he understands and respects what the name means. Other times, I think he is an egomaniac and I want to slap him for ruining everything. But just when I think he's trashing Dior, he will pull off something fantastic (Autumn 2005 couture, for example) and then I forgive him all over again.

 

[justinleaddict]

I wish I was sitting on the fence but someone needs to talk back to these people B)

 

[PrinceOfCats]

I really love the work of Christian Dior, his design aesthetic and the classic beauty I think he represents.

I find Christian Dior a little frightening. Horse-hair hip pads and extensive corsetry to create a kind of super-elegant (super-impractical) look which was then modelled by the wives of the American captains of industry... It all smacks of chauvinistic, super-capitalism based on the aspirations of new money in a class-bound society with a little sexism thrown in for good measure. Not that the clothes themselves aren't pretty...

 

[Lena]

of course, for his time Christian Dior was a real couturier and a true innovator

modern Dior has really nothing to do with the legacy/hisotry of the House

 

[As You Like It]

I find Christian Dior a little frightening. Horse-hair hip pads and extensive corsetry to create a kind of super-elegant (super-impractical) look which was then modelled by the wives of the American captains of industry... It all smacks of chauvinistic, super-capitalism based on the aspirations of new money in a class-bound society with a little sexism thrown in for good measure. Not that the clothes themselves aren't pretty...

Well, Dior (and all other haute couture) still represents a very classist society. Only the very well-to-do can buy and wear this stuff, yet they are painfully bound by a kind of Victorian-middle-class view of taste, which decries all but a small sample of his designs and goods to be "tacky" or "vulgar." The original Dior designs from the 1950s at least spawned some very attractive trickle-down fashion, whereas the stuff today is not accessible, and unlovely on all but a few supermodels and the carefully dieted-and-primped wealthy elite, and even then, sometimes his styles are a miss, not a hit.

 

[Doctor Caroline]

Like said before Gallianos srtuff is extremely tacky and really.....try hard and Galliano has made Dior famous for that but just cuz its famous for it doesnt mean its a good thing. Id say Dior is now INFAMOUS for its tacky and try hard image. Some people like his cheap looking stuff but still look at it and say: "Thats ridiculously good looking" it may be good looking but never the less its ridiculous.