Friday 6 July 2012

Dior - Raf Simons' debut Dior show


Dior’s New Look

THE fashion world has given its seal of approval to Raf Simons' debut Dior show yesterday - a collection he wanted to link "to the codes of Dior", but with "more energy". The show was watched by the cream of the industry, including Riccardo Tisci, Marc Jacobs, Donatella Versace, Diane von Furstenberg and Alber Elbaz.


"Before the show, I found it difficult to imagine what Raf would do at Dior," admitted Versace, "but from the very first look today it made total sense."

"[It was] absolutely poetic," Elbaz told the Guardian. "It was perfection. Today was a beautiful marriage between a designer and a house."

"Raf Simons did a SUPERB Dior show! Very DIOR! Another talented Belgian! Love Diane," Tweeted von 


"It was what you hoped for and more - it was such a beautiful homage to Dior, a mix of the modern, clean and unexpected with a real lightness of touch," Lucinda Chambers, Vogue fashion director,  told us. It was more elegant than elegant and he trod a brilliant line of being him and being respectful of Dior, I loved it."


Jacobs told WWD that the collection was "absolutely magnificent", while Tisci called it "very Raf".
LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault also offered Simons' his praise: "I didn't want to rush," he told WWD of his year-long search to find a creative director for the label. "It was really a question of choosing the best person for the job, and he stood head and shoulders above the rest: the greatest talent of the moment for Dior, the greatest house in the world."

One of the most talked-about debuts in fashion history, Simons offering mixed his signature minimal, aesthetic with the pretty, femininity of Dior - signifying that the future of this iconic brand lays in very safe hands.


Dior has been the centre of fashion gossip since February last year, when its then-creative director, John Galliano, was arrested formaking anti-Semitic remarks in a Parisian bar and sacked two months later in April. The rumour mill went into overdrive regarding which designer might succeed him, with mooted names having included  JacobsTisciHaider Ackermann, Hedi Slimane,Stefano Pilati and  Erdem.


YOU SHOULD SEE: The Dior show archive...



Source: VOGUE - ELLA ALEXANDER 03 July 2012

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