Galliano goes Diorissimo

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2008

PARIS (AFP) — John Galliano's show for Christian Dior on Monday, on the first day of couture week, paid an exuberant tribute to the master, much to the delight of the hundreds of guests invited to the event at the Rodin museum.

It was even more "Dior" than the collection he sent out for the house's 60th anniversary last year.

The revolutionary post-war "New Look" silhouette with its wasp waist and extravagant use of fabric, Dior's famous "bar" line suits with peplums, his leopard prints - everything was revisited and subtly reworked by Galliano for his next autumn-winter collection.

The waists of silk suits were cinched by wide belts in patent leather as rigid as the carapaces of insects or stiff with embroidery or studs.

His models wore cloche hats...