A lesson from Dior

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Much will be said about the House of Dior over coming months. A lot of the chatter will include talk of its former designer John Galliano. He's currently before the French courts because of that incident with a verdict on whether he is guilty as accused expected in September. Until then the man and the fashion house will undoubtedly be tied. And that's probably a fair thing. It's unlikely that we'll ever know the true extent of the hand he had in the formation of Dior's next autumn / winter collection, but what we do know is the impact he had on the fashion house's couture and ready-to-wear lines. To the couture he brought a true mastery of the extravagant, to the ready-to-wear he brought something far subtler but still no less strong as a story.

That story for Christian Dior's fall 2011 ready-to-wear collection begins with femininity as its foundation and continues with Britishness as its motif. Some may misidentify it as thoroughly English in its application, and in a Victorian sense of England's appropriation of so many foreign icons it is. But in reality this is a collection that is more a tour-de-force of the British Isles, one that interprets so many of fall 2011's fashion statements from the perspective of the classics.

Entire Article: Read it by clicking A lesson from Dior.

Related Pictures (28 in total): See them by clicking Dior RTW A '11 Look Book or read up on fall 2011 fashion or 2012 fashion.

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