

Every single demonstrate by John Galliano feels like a celebration – and, on the tenth anniversary of his appointment as creative director at the home of Christian Dior, which also coincides with the 60th anniversary of the property alone, the bar was certainly high as A-record supporters including Juliette Binoche, Monica Bellucci, Sophia Coppola, Marisa Berenson and Kate Hudson flocked to the Versailles Orangerie to see just how so several momentous moments would be translated onto the Couture catwalk. Galliano does not do disappointment. His collection was not, as anticipated, an homage to Dior’s groundbreaking New Look of 1947, but relatively referenced the legendary designer’s art-entire world influences. Visitors had been handled to a visual onslaught of the most lavish creations, modelled by names only a designer of Galliano’s stature can command – Helena Christensen, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Gisele, Amber Valetta, Stella Tennant and Karen Mulder amongst them – as Caravaggio, El Greco, Monet, Renoir and Cocteau had been reimagined in bustles, silks, embroidery, feathers and devastatingly elegant black velvet. The display, which was dedicated to Galliano’s correct-hand gentleman, Steven Robinson, who died previously this calendar year, has definitely lifted the stakes in Paris as Chanel, Christian Lacroix and Givenchy put together to get to the runways nowadays – the front row no doubt recuperating quietly after final night’s blow-out black tie Dior celebration.




December 19th, 2011
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