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Dior turned sixty in 2007 and Galliano marked ten years at the house, so the show was held at night in the Orangerie at Versailles. The supermodels came back for it: Linda, Naomi, Amber, Shalom, Helena and Gisele.
The theme was art. Each look was a tribute to a painter, illustrator or photographer connected to Christian Dior’s world. It opened in black and white, with Gisele in a Bar suit that went back to the New Look of 1947, in the spirit of Irving Penn’s photographs and the ink drawings of Gruau and Cocteau. Then colour arrived slowly, first as a hand-tinted rose on a white bustier dress, then in full palettes taken from the Impressionists, the Dutch masters, the Pre-Raphaelites and the Spanish school. Pale pink, mauve, ice blue, crimson, orange and emerald shaded into one another across huge duchesse satin skirts. A passage inspired by Goya and Zurbarán, set to flamenco, pointed to Galliano’s own Spanish roots.
For all the grandeur, the mood was tender and a little sad. Steven Robinson, Galliano’s right hand for twenty years, had died that April while working on the collection, and the show was for him as much as for Mr Dior.
The audience stood to applaud. It is a majestic, emotional celebration of everything couture can be.
Pictures courtesy of Vogue Runway
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