1997

Dior 1997 s/s Haute Couture

1996

The ‘Bar Suit’ by Dior, Spring/Summer 1947 Collection

Dior 1996 s/s Haute Couture.

Courses Exercise no.2

A Brief intro of the Dior Background

To know more about Dior's colour trend , maybe we should know a little bit about its background , as search as follows :

1946:Opening of the fashion house Christian Dior, on 16 December, in a small private mansion at 30, avenue Montaigne.

1947:Presentation of the first collection, Spring-Summer 1947. The lines'COROLLE' and '8' stun the fashion world.Dior receives a fashion award from Neiman Marcus in Dallas.

1948:Opening of Christian Dior -New York and Christian Dior Perfumes-New York.

1954:Opening of Christian Dior Ltd, Dior's first London shop. The 'H Line' in the collection Autumn-Winter 1954-1955, is nicknamed the 'French Bean Line' or'Flat Look'.

1955:Yves Saint Laurent is appointed to the design staff and becomes Dior's first and only assistant.

1956:Creation of the perfume'Diorissimo'.

1957:Christian Dior dies of a heart attack and YSL is appointed artistic director.

1958:YSL shows the'Trapeze Line' in his fist collection,SS 1958. Marc Bohan is appointed artistic dirctor of Christian Dior.

1961:Marc Bohan presents his first Haute Couture collection SS 1961, the'Slim Look'.

1967:First collection of women's ready-to-wear, 'Miss Dior', created by Philippe Guibourge.Introdction of the 'Baby Dior' Line.

1983:Marc Bohan is awarded De d'Or for his Haute Couture collection.SS 1983.

1988:a Second De d'Or is awarded to Marc Bohan for his Haute Counture collection.

1996:Fiftieth anniversary of the house of Dior.1997 Christian Dior Couture takes over the network of 13 boutiques operated under franchise by its Japanese licensee, Kanebo.

1998 :Christian Dior Couture takes over the direct marketing of ready-to-wear and women’s accessories in Japan after terminating its licensing agreement with Kanebo.

1999 :Launch of the perfume “J’adore”.Creation of a new business group, Fine Jewelry, whose collections are created by Victoire de Castellane.

2001: In January 2001, Hedi Slimane, new creator of the “Homme” line, presents his first collection based on a new contemporary masculine concept.Launch of the men’s fragrance “Higher”.Opening of the Fine Jewelry boutique at Place Vendôme, created under the supervision of Victoire de Castellane.

2002 :Launch of the perfume “Addict”.

2003: Opening of a flagship boutique in the Omotesando district (Tokyo).

2004: Opening of a flagship boutique in the Ginza district (Tokyo).

2005 :Celebration of the centennial of Christian Dior’s birth.Launch of the perfumes “Miss Dior Chérie” and “Dior Homme”.

2006: Christian Dior Couture directly takes over the activity of its Moscow agent and opens a boutique in the GUM department store.

2007 :Celebration of the 60th anniversary of the creation of Maison Dior (1947). Kris Van Assche, the new creator of the menswear line, presents his first collections.

946-1957 : Christian DiorThe name of dior means god and gold, so we can find yeloow or golden color in many Dior collections.

Dior spirit is to create magic of fashion so most of the collections always bring fresh image and idea to us.

Designers of Christian Dior Haute Couture1997-Present : John Galliano **

Dior 1987 s/s Collection

Christian Dior haute couture spring/summer 1987

A Brief intro. of Dior Collection in s/s 1987 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4h3BLpafCA

THis Collection is mainly using monochromatic color scheme and achromatic color scheme.
It also apply the principle of (color of nature)black, whit, orange, yellow, pink
The mood gives elegant feeling .

John Galliano

John Galliano

JOHN GALLIANO , chief designer of Christian Dior He always brings something exotic to his audience that they have never imagine and experience.

His ideas come from an array of rarely connected times, people and places. He always uses the vivid color in his collections. “The Mediterranean color, is where my love of textiles comes from," Galliano has saidHe loves travelling, he said that tourism is the driving force behind his design.

He loved alone, such as hunting pirates found everywhere as the local culture and integrate into the design. Due to his parents, Galliano has Latin sensibility with British irony. He likes to interpret what he saw or experienced in his trips in his collections. For example, different culture, textiles, pattern, character. Because of his travels so that he understood the way of life of women of different cultures, understanding cultural differences, it is more close to the local market, more characteristics of products.

Quote Of John Galliano On The Economy Versus Couture
“Of course I’m sensitive to the economy, of course I’m aware of it--I read the newspapers; I watch TV, but dealing with it is not my job. My job is to do the best I can to show the possibilities of Dior. When you’re standing in a hurricane, you have to keep your feet firmly on the ground. If you panic, whew…you fly away."


has been quoted as identifying his love of theatre and femininity as central to his creations – "my role is to seduce" he has said and went as far as recreating some of Dior's period clothing for Madonna in the film Evita.

A Brief Introduction of Christain Dior.

Christian Dior were establisted by ChristianDior in France in 1946.

Designers of Christian Dior:

1946-1957: ChristianDior

1957-1960: YvesSaintLaurent

1960-1989: MarcBohan

1989-1996: GianfrancoFerre

1996-present: JohnGalliano

In the earlier of 1920's, Mr. Dior's family, whose fortune was derived from the manufacture of fertilizer, had hopes he would become a diplomat, but Dior only wished to be involved in the arts, mostly fashion, but sketching as well.

To make money, he sold his fashion sketches for about 10 cents each. After leaving school he received money from his father so that in 1928 he could open a small art gallery. After a family financial disaster that resulted in his father losing his business, Dior was forced to close the gallery.

From 1938 he worked with Robert Piguet and later joined the fashion house where he and Pierre Balmain were the primary designers. For the duration of World War II, Christian Dior dressed the wives of the Nazi officers and French collaborators.

In 1945 he went into business for himself, backed by Marcel Boussac, the cotton-fabric magnate. The actual name of the line was Corolle (roughly petal in French), but the phrase New Look was coined for it by Carmel Snow, the editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar. Dior's designs were more voluptuous than the boxy, fabric-conserving shapes of the recent World War II styles, influenced by the rations on fabric.

He was a master at creating shapes and silhouettes; His look employed fabrics lined predominantly with percale, boned, bustier-style bodices, hip padding, wasp-waisted corsets and petticoats that made his dresses flare out from the waist, giving his models a very curvaceous form. The hem of the skirt was very flattering on the calves and ankles, creating a beautiful silhouette. Initially, women protested because his designs covered up their legs, which they had been unused to because of the previous limitations on fabric.

There was also some backlash to Dior's designs form due to the amount of fabrics used in a single dress or suit--during one photo shoot in a Paris market, the models were attacked by female vendors over the profligacy of their dresses--but opposition ceased as the wartime shortages ended. The New Look revolutionized women's dress and reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world after World War II.

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Course Exercise no.1