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."
"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 Jacobs, Tisci, Haider Ackermann, Hedi Slimane,Stefano Pilati and Erdem.
Source: VOGUE - ELLA ALEXANDER 03 July 2012
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