Christian Dior Fall 2011 Couture
http://www.vogue.com/fashion-week-review/863216/christian-dior-fall-2011-couture/
The cataclysmic events surrounding the exit of John Galliano from Christian Dior need no rehashing. Their aftermath has effectively left the house empty of direction, and a team, led by Bill Gaytten, Galliano’s longtime righthand pattern-cutter, charged with the task of putting on a haute couture show to the best of their ability. There was certainly no scaling back of the pomp surrounding a Dior couture event: It was held, as has been the practice since last summer, in a huge tent pitched in the garden of the Musée Rodin. Last year, sunlight streamed in through transparent windows. This time, the tent was blacked out. If it didn’t exactly give a deliberately somber cast to the proceedings, it still felt as if this show—inevitably an interregnum—was a case of marking time before the new designer is announced, which will apparently happen at some point in the fall.
Meanwhile the team had chosen a couple of conceits to carry them through. One reference was the postmodern Pop patterns the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass invented for his Memphis Group furniture and product design collective in the eighties; another took inspiration from the work of the interior designers Jean-Michel Frank and Jean Dunand; a third was derived from Jean-Paul Goude. All of that—meaning pastel color and jazzy pattern, followed by darker marquetry and malachite prints—was deployed in a team effort to give the spirit of the show a certain brave energy and optimism. Inevitably, though, the lack of a designer’s overarching vision couldn’t be concealed. The fact is that fashion at this much-scrutinized über-level can only be pulled together by the conviction of a strong, inspired, and couture-accomplished visionary. It was hard for anyone present not to feel empathy for the predicament of Gaytten and all the other people Galliano left behind, but equally, this show only served to illustrate the unavoidable fact of great fashion: that a house as important as Christian Dior can’t be led by a team alone.
How I feel it relates to the 60's
When looking through the 38 looks of the Christian Dior Fall 2011 I felt a modern vibe of the 60's. The hair was large and up in a bouffant on the tops of there head and the bright block colours and graphic lines felt like a modern, extravagant version of the 60's with definitely a high fashion runway look. Certain looks more than other I felt represented and had aspects of the 60's with the bold graphic pattern clothes, full hair with lots of volume and bounce and large winged liner.
Some of my fave looks.. 60's inspo
These are my 7 favourite looks from the show and which I personally feel have elements of the 60's. The first two looks have large volumised hair that is a causal modern beehive of some sort and the hair and height sitting on the top reminds me a little of The Ronettes hair which sat very tall. The clothing is skirts which was often worn by women in the 60's with pastel colours and bold patterns on the skirt, this element of wear was during the end of the 60's pushing onto the 70's when fashion starting changing a lot and people starting taking risks with there clothing. The next five photos the hair changes, its down however still with super volume and uplift in the roots, with either a center parting or completely lifted of the face and back combed backwards. These styles reminds me more of Brigette Bardot's lushious thick bouncy locks from the 60's and again going into the 70's. The long patterned bold dressed were definitely late 60's and Christian Dior's show definitely has taken some factors from the late 60's-70's and given it a bold modern take with striking looks and bold colour makeup with a few graphical lines and shapes as hair accessories.
Photos from the 60's for comparison of the Fall 2011 catwalk
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As you can see from the two photos above which are from the late 60's the hair had volume and the colours got brighter and graphic patterns came in. Pushing onto the 70's it went a little hippy and the hair became straighter however the colours got brighter and wilder. I think the Christian Dior Fall 2011 can really bring a new take to my modern/contemporary design and help with influence my final idea creating a hair design from the 60's with a modern twist.
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