FRANCE: CHRISTIAN DIOR DESIGNER JOHN GALLIANO SHOWS HIS LATEST HAUTE COUTURE FASHION COLLECTION IN PARIS

Record ID: 231163

  • Title: FRANCE: CHRISTIAN DIOR DESIGNER JOHN GALLIANO SHOWS HIS LATEST HAUTE COUTURE FASHION COLLECTION IN PARIS
  • Date: 20th July 1998
  • Summary: PARIS, FRANCE (JULY 20, 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OPENING OF DIOR SHOW WITH STEAM TRAIN PASSING BY 0.20 2. VARIOUS OF DESIGNS BY JOHN GALLIANO (11 SHOTS) 1.47 3. PAN JOHN GALLIANO GOING PAST ON STEAM TRAIN/ WAVING 2.12 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th August 1998 13:00
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  • Location: France, EUROPEAN UNION (Constituents), EUROPE
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  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVA7Z6NNV9XRBFYK4O3IO8JCR5T8
  • Story Text: Pocohantas, the Three Musketeers and Henry VIII -- a strange combination, and only John Galliano, Christian Dior's leading couturier, could pull it off.

    At his haute couture collection for the house of Christian Dior on Monday (July 20), the swashbuckling British designer took the fashion crowd into a world of Indians in war bonnets, tight-laced Renaissance ladies and d'Artagnan types in mini-skirts and feathered velvet caps.

    Galliano set his costume extravaganza in a Paris rail station transformed into a souk full of palms and ferns, where orange sand covered the floor, and dates, oranges and exotic spices filled brass bowls.

    In chugged a steam locomotive and out popped the models: Naomi Campbell in a beaded squaw dress and bone necklace and Shalom Harlow in a magenta Renaissance gown, the waist raised, and bodice and sleeves tight on the skin.

    Swollen Henry VIII coats, embroidered with American Indian or Chinese motifs topped doeskin musketeer outfits with mini-skirts and bustier dresses over thigh-high boots.

    Colour was everywhere.

    Dresses were embroidered with Wedgwood blue flowers or gold Moorish patterns while 17th-century brocade redingotes were lined in white ermine scattered with black tails.

    Galliano's trademark skinny black wool gowns came with the stiff white collarets seen in Flemish paintings and giant sleeves of gold ribbons.

    Dior's gamble in hiring Galliano has paid off.He is one of the rare couturiers in Paris whose clothes stir up excitement and each season he stretches the limits of his imagination farther.

    And while most of these wild outfits could only be worn to a costume party, they are toned down and modified as the customer orders.
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