Dior Spring 2007 Couture = Perfect
Couture, for most of us, isn’t about the real world. It isn’t about our daily lives, the running errands and hailing cabs and cleaning the kitchen that make up a normal Wednesday. It’s about fantasy, a dream of fashion that shouldn’t be disregarded or dismissed just because it has nothing to do with reality. Haute couture is art and, like art, doesn’t need to be anything but beautiful.
John Galliano captured that idea beautifully, perfectly, with his Spring 2007 Couture collection for Dior. I might have my own issues with the Geisha look, but the spirit of his collection - the structure, the attention to fabric and detail, the perfect unforced theatrically of it - was pure Couture.
It was throwback without feeling recycled, delicate without being precious, dramatic without seeming staged. There were origami collars and skirts, patterned obis, webbed fans and parasols, and of course the dramatic white Geisha makeup, and though the frocks themselves ranged from sharply architectural suits in glossy black and dove grey to full-skirted organza gowns in shades of ivory, the delicate Japanese sensibility prevailed. It was, in a word, beautiful.
See the entire Christian Dior Spring 2007 Couture collection, including some gorgeous detail shots, here.
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