A picture may be worth a thousand words, but here are 552 used by the fash pack to characterize Simons’s very hotly anticipated debut at Dior. While not everyone felt his first-ever couture collection was an unqualified success (hey there, Suze?), critical consensus was that this New New Look set the bar pretty high, and possibly even changed the course of couture.

Click through to read what fashion’s most important commentators had to say about this new direction for Dior.

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