Haute Couture
Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2011: Galliano’s Tribute to Fashion Illustrator René Gruau
Fashionista contributor Long Nguyen is the co-founder/style director of Flaunt.
PARIS–Last July at the Rodin museum garden tent, John Galliano for Dior sent out vivid colorful dress inspired by flowers, some with three-dimensional shapes of petals, for the Dior Haute Couture show.
Yesterday, at the same site, it was the work of legendary fashion illustrator René Gruau that inspired Galliano’s couture collection for Dior. Gruau and Dior had a long creative collaboration and friendship, which began when Graua created a drawing of a swan for an ad for Miss Dior perfume in 1947. Gruau’s economic style–using blocks of light colors against simple black lines–defined the modernity of Mr. Dior’s audacious couture vision: bold lines and ambitious clothes beget uncomplicated elegance.
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