Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2011: Galliano?s Tribute to Fashion Illustrator Ren� 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 Ren� 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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