For this Holidays collection, Peter Philips created ‘Precious Rocks’, a
mysterious beauty look inspired by opulent jewels and pure colors!
Opulent and glittery, Dior beauty is as precious as a gemstone! Designed
by Peter Philips, Creative and Image Director for Dior Makeup, the
Precious Rocks collection plays with sophistication and dares to use
kaleidoscopic shades. After all, the Dior woman is all this and more:
she highlights her smile with bejeweled lipstick, adorns herself with
colour finery, and embellishes her eyes with pure and prismatic shades.
With carefree allure, she fully embraces her beauty. Precious Rocks is
an homage to the unfettered rock spirit, confidently precious.
Perfect Combo! Match the fiery Red of your Diorific Matte Fluid in Desire 007 with one of these precious Diorific Vernis! Grenat 745 or Ruby 673?
Miss Dior Absolutely Blooming. The new fragrance by Dior starring Natalie Portman. Absolutely floral, absolutely delicious. Made with exceptional roses from Dior Domains in Grasse.
"Un peu, beaucoup ... Absolutely!"
GRASSE AT THE HEART OF DIOR FRAGRANCES
The House of Christian
Dior and the House of Louis Vuitton, open an exceptional hub of
creation, Les Fontaines Parfumées, in Grasse, South of France. François
Demachy, Dior's perfumer-creator, will conceive the fragrance of
tomorrow just a few miles from Le Château de La Colle Noire, Christian
Dior's house, where it all began.
Direct after the Paris Haute Couture Week, on 7th July the house of DIOR was delighted to announce Ms. Maria Grazia Chiuri as
the new artistic director of women's haute couture, ready-to-wear and accessory
collections. Maria Grazia Chiuri leaved her role as Co-Creative Director
after 17 years with Maison VALENTINO and 8 in her role as Co-Creative
Director.
Since Raf Simons quit Christian Dior
so suddenly last October, the two heads of the inhouse design-team Lucie Meier and Serge
Ruffieux, who stepped up to caretake the design direction, have been
managing it with unflustered aplomb. The potential for things going
terribly wrong was high, but they didn’t revert to a paralyzed dullness
in the face if the enormity of the task, or resort to an unhappy
repetition-by-rote of what Simons had been doing. The Fall/Winter
couture collection was a typical example of their non-uptight approach
to producing what a youngish woman might want to buy from Christian
Dior a feminine but, thankfully, not jolie madame collection in black
and white.
Inevitably, it was loosely based on the silhouette of
Christian Dior’s 1947 New Look Bar jacket and crinolined skirt, but
without anachronistic corseting or frothy tulle petticoats. Instead, the
impression was of relaxed black taffeta dresses, a concentration on
full skirts, tops flowing out to traily trains, and smatterings of gold
and silver embroidery. The official line was that the collection was
meant to emphasize the work of the Dior ateliers the part of the house
that provides the continuity of skills crucial to a couture house, no
matter which designers are coming and going.
To tell the truth, this
season didn’t showcase their abilities particularly well, as the
unfitted nature of the collection and the flat Roman sandals made the
whole seem more like clothes a young girl would take off on holiday than
grand occasion-wear. That, of course, is understandable when the
designers in charge presumably have little experience of the worlds that
wealthy clients actually inhabit. To take the possibilities of haute
couture to truly soaring heights requires the insights of someone who
knows both the techniques and the lifestyles inside out.
Before the interregnum of Meier and
Ruffieux ends, it behooves the wider industry to acknowledge that this
pair of Swiss nationals, thrown together in the Sturm und Drang of a
house emergency, managed this difficult moment well.
Direct after the Paris Haute Couture Week, on 7th July the house of DIOR was delighted to announce Ms. Maria Grazia Chiuri as
the new artistic director of women's haute couture, ready-to-wear and accessory
collections. Maria Grazia Chiuri leaved her role as Co-Creative Director
after 17 years with Maison VALENTINO and 8 in her role as Co-Creative
Director.
Discover the entire DIOR Autumn/Winter 2016/17 Haute Couture collection & runway show at the end of this post, and my special DIOR collection with more than 170 newest editorials on Google+ by ANDREA JANKE << please click here - enjoy! LoL, Andrea
Callian,
Montauroux, Le Lavandou, Saint-Tropez and Saint-Raphaël… Christian Dior
had always been inspired by the sunny charms of the
French Riviera. It was like a faithful mirror, a sister land that
reflected and nourished his sunny soul.
A few of the quainter ones
were being trotted out by the natives who had boarded “The Dior Express”
as it chugged through the Oxfordshire countryside, bound for Blenheim
Palace May 31st (see my Instagram-story @andreajankeofficial direct from the show). It was bucketing down, pelting, chucking it down,
raining cats and dogs doing everything in its power, in fact, to rain
on the grand, sweeping country house location of Dior’s Resort show.
Julia Nobis is back as the face ofDior’s Autum/Winter 2016 campaign after previously appearing in the autumn 2015 advertisements. The Australian beauty poses for Steven Meisel
in dynamic studio shots. Each shot features the blonde model in
mid-stride with a bag hanging from her hand. Dior’s autumn collection
was designed by Serge Ruffieux and Lucie Meier, who will also unveil the
haute couture collection in July.
DIOR Haute Couture presentation on Monday July 4th, 5:00 PM - enjoy!
As the embodiment of the Dior ready-to-wear autumn-winter 2016-2017
collection, the progressively mobile woman is an active and expressive woman of
today. Incarnated by Julia Nobis, her personality is spontaneously
expressed in an unfettered mix of garments, motifs and embroideries. In
this series of shots, her athletic dynamism reveals the inherent
richness of the creations she wears: a skirt's sensual slit exposing a
leg caught in mid-stride, an association of animal and plant motifs
visible when the panels of a coat flip up, or the flounces of a dress
that flutter with a shift of the shoulders.
Callian,
Montauroux, Le Lavandou, Saint-Tropez and Saint-Raphaël… Christian Dior
had always been inspired by the sunny charms of the
French Riviera. It was like a faithful mirror, a sister land that
reflected and nourished his sunny soul.
A few of the quainter ones
were being trotted out by the natives who had boarded “The Dior Express”
as it chugged through the Oxfordshire countryside, bound for Blenheim
Palace May 31st (see my Instagram-story @andreajankeofficial direct from the show). It was bucketing down, pelting, chucking it down,
raining cats and dogs doing everything in its power, in fact, to rain
on the grand, sweeping country house location of Dior’s Resort show.
