Oh my, I never posted the Christian Dior Fall 2008 Couture collection?
Gasp! I must right this wrong immediately! One of my all-time favourite shows: Sarah Mower on Style.com: In a way, it was a classic: combining the indelible fifties inspiration of Lisa Fonssagrives,...
View ArticleJohn Galliano for Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2011
Oh god, kill me now! I can die happy after this collection. It’s Galliano’s tribute to Christian Dior’s fashion illustrator, Rene Gruau, who made the New Look so iconic in the 1940s and 50s. Perhaps...
View ArticleDetails at Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2011
Thanks to Style.com, we can get a closer peek at the lovely coiffed hair, Gruau-esque makeup, killer heels, contrasting colored gloves, half-moon manicures and fine details that made me love this show...
View ArticleBackstage Hair & Makeup at Christian Dior Couture Spring 2011
Backstage shots of hair and makeup at the show, fantastico! You can see, to give the models that haughty, high cheek-boned and highly arched brow look of Rene Gruau’s fashion illustrations in the...
View ArticleGalliano’s Inspiration for Christian Dior Couture Spring 2011 Collection:...
René Gruau was a fashion illustrator, most famous for his work in the 1940s and 1950s. He walked away from his father’s aristocratic heritage (his father was an Italian count), to pursue an artistic...
View ArticleTop Picks: Christian Dior Spring 2011 Ready-to-Wear
Am I sick of Galliano for Christian Dior yet? Never!! So this ready-to-wear collection is nothing on the couture I posted a few days ago, but ain’t it sweet? Keeping nautical in for spring I see –...
View ArticleHair & Makeup: Christian Dior Spring 2011
As promised, the backstage hair and makeup shots from the ready-to-wear show. In a few shots you can see they used facelift tape to lift the models’ brows, just like they did in the couture show. And...
View ArticleGalliano’s Sad Finale: Christian Dior Fall 2011 Ready-to-Wear
Well, you all know how great a fan I have been of John Galliano’s work for the house of Christian Dior, so this is a sad post. I’m sure you have all heard how Galliano has been dismissed from Christian...
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