Christian Dior Spring 2016 Collection
Christian Dior Spring 2016 Collection
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Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
Christian Dior 2016 Spring Collection
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Christian Dior Spring Collection for Fashion show paris 2016
Christian Dior Haute Couture: A Retrospective On Monday, studio directors Serge Ruffieux and Lucie Meier, who respectively had headed fall and spring ready-to-wear and couture studios under Simons, stepped into the spotlight and produced a collection meant to further push the wearability agenda. “Couture’s new realism,” the show notes declared.The venue, a mirrored tent of many angles, seemed to send a subliminal message: That at chez Dior, the client can recognize herself.The blistering pace of the show, meanwhile, heightened the spontaneous character of some of the clothes, and transmitted another idea: Couture it’s for women on the go.
The collection was cast from the same modernist mold as it was under Simons, reprising his jumble of paneled embroideries, and streamlined takes on the Bar jacket, here enlarged into a hip-length camel coat, or elongated into a narrow black one, under which pleated ruffles undulated.
Silk skirts, while past the knee and straight, came with slits, swags or panels of pleating that gave them a seductive movement. Shorter, A-line skirts also came with extra folds of fabric, winking to the fan-skirted New Look that caused a sensation almost seven decades ago.
During a preview, Ruffieux and Meier cited a strong complicity, and a freewheeling approach to interpreting the archive, emphasizing a “wardrobe of pieces” to give women freedom. Noting that Dior was known for striking décolleté, they engineered coats and evening dresses that slipped intentionally off the shoulders as a gesture of Parisian seduction.
These often registered as forced on the runway, contrary to their easy-to-wear ethos. On the plus side, they pointed to a heightened femininity that suits the storied house. To be sure, some of the flou numbers were striking, including a barely-there lilac chiffon gown with two sewn-on ruffles and a smattering of embroideries.A series of short black tulle dresses with plunging necklines were abstractions of Dior’s 1949 Junon gown with its ombréed petals, here abstracted into small sprays of tulle sheltering 3-D embroideries.
At the end of the show, Ruffieux and Meier came out for a bow, and then five more members of the studio spilled onto the runway. The team has also been conscripted to realize the fall 2016 ready-to-wear show in March, awaiting the arrival of Dior’s seventh couturier, fashion’s latest $64,000 question.
