Christian Dior, Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear, Paris, 2015 Throbbing Gristle’s “Hot on the Heels of Love,” the piece of music that soundtracked the Christian Dior show today, has a chilly, slaphappy Fifty Shades quality that seemed tailor-made for a collection whose animal essence was fulsomely described by Raf Simons as “something more liberated, darker, more sexual.” Something… Continue reading Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear: Christian Dior
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Resort 2014: Christian Dior
Raf Simons for Christian Dior, Resort 2014, Paris A dynamic forward movement for Dior. First and foremost, Simons was challenging himself, the way Miuccia Prada does with things she feels she has no natural instinct for. Lace, for instance, has never been part of Raf’s lingo. He didn’t want the history or the romance of… Continue reading Resort 2014: Christian Dior
Christian Dior, Spring Summer 2013
Raf Simons for Christian Dior, Spring Summer 2013, Paris, 28 September 2012 The Schubert piece that was playing as invitees entered the huge, purpose-built salons where Raf Simons showed his first ready-to-wear collection for Dior today was familiar, especially to fans of The Hunger, David Bowie’s 1983 vampire movie. Simons is an ardent Bowie-phile, and… Continue reading Christian Dior, Spring Summer 2013