Mon 28 Jan 2008
Christian Dior’s latest haute couture collection presented Monday in Paris was inspired by Jean Singer Sargent’s portrait of Madame X, a painting so controversial that the American artist was forced to withdraw it when he first showed it at the Paris Salon of 1884.
No chance of that happening with John Galliano’s spring 2008 collection for Dior, one so crammed with ideas about volume and decoration that hundreds of lesser talents will copy it, rather than demand it be withdrawn. And if Dior’s latest haute couture collection told us anything about the future it’s that women worldwide will be wearing volume in explosive colors this coming summer.
