Christian Dior Fall Couture 2012, or what I like to call an amazingly elegant opening to the Paris Haute Couture fashion shows. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term Haute Couture, (even I was surprised when I looked it up) it is an artisan based method of making clothes that dates back over 150 years. The highly expensive garments are bought by a core group of no more than 100 rich women around the world. Wow!
This collection showed it certainly was a new day at Dior as it was Raf Simons' debut of the collection, but he certainly did not disappoint. Opening with a series of crisp tuxedo suiting, that was appropriately glamourous the show moved on to a clear juxtaposition of meticulous separates paired with decorative peplum tops. The overall clean direction Simons had intended was evident in the symmetrically placed bead work which often resembled a grid and the confident nature and timeless appeal of the silhouettes.
XX BMH
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