Christian Dior Couture Fall 2009

Everyone knows John Galliano is a brilliant designer and showman. Without question, he knows how to test and make use of his whimsical work. Sometimes that means going all-out and over-the-top. His girls proved more than up to the task, skillfully flaunting the designer’s glorious tailoring, curvaceous dresses and explosive gowns, each an extravagance of color, texture, structure, embellishment…and of skill — a point Galliano made with no small level of artistic flourish. “It all begins with the corset,” he said. He therefore sent out models wearing dresses worked in various transparencies, or seemingly caught in states of undress — jacket without skirt, enormous ball skirt without bodice. As for color, it was joyful — fuchsia, yellow, purple, orange……Whimsical indeed…….