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[alonewiththemoon]

Dior's fall collection is just amazing:

It’s a parade of medieval warrior-women in gilded chain mail, copper verdigris gowns, and glass diadems, each equipped with an armored sleeve. It’s a bizarre troupe of goth-punks in outsize black-and-red folded 3-D shapes fashioned from trash-bag plastic. It’s a mincing line of forties ladies in pea-green and magenta doublet-jacketed crepe suits sporting lobster parts for hats. And then it’s a perambulating collection of Tuscan topiary, with pennants and trumpets poking out atop.

All this—and, be assured, there was more—played out against the backdrop of a Renaissance garden underneath a sky that alternated between blood-red storm clouds and a spinning astrological wheel taken from an illuminated manuscript.

(well, the pea-green things are rather silly, but I love the beginning and end of the collection.  A couple of times the slideshow window came up blank for me, but if you click where the next button ought to be, you can continue on)

Comments

what's wrong with the models?

[julishka.livejournal.com]

the armour outfits are quite fantastical (ok, all are.) but if you're a model and are going to be wearing some sort of kick ass armoured gown, please don't look bored or weak. mmmkay? get a little spirit in ya.

[pamelasbelly.livejournal.com]

I think Galliano is just completely making fun of how ludicrous the fashion industry can be. The models look like they popped right out of a Tim Burton movie :). I think his work qualifies more as performance art than fashion but I am entertained either way...

I definitely want a lobster hat! Spaceman, indeed...