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PARIS – Guests, including Katie Holmes and Kate Bosworth, were caught in the heart of Christian Dior's work for the nostalgic exhibition of the French brand that celebrated the art of the workshop.
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Hundreds of retro busts and mannequins in unfinished white robes flanked the walls of the runway – floor-to-ceiling – inside the Rodin Museum in Paris while the designs showed the smoothness of an old seam.
Here are some highlights of the fall-winter collections presented on Monday.
In Dior's scented air, there was an old-school vibe: berets, veils and fancy jewelery from the 1950s dropped in Paris. 19659006] The beret from the Dior Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2018/2019 collection. (Photo AP / Francois Mori)
Thick fabrics reminiscent of post-war styles were used evocatively in a midnight blue coat and in a three-piece ensemble with a fringed spiral sleeves bolero [19659004] the palette of nuances powdered against bare also dates back to a time, before the proliferation of bright colors in the 1960s, where the creators still preferred the subtle hues.
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This season, the program notes that "(designer) Maria Grazia Chiuri returns to fundamentals."
She created a superbly executed haute couture collection of 71 looks – but that seemed like he was running out of energy and was avoiding huge creative leaps.
Still, there was a lot of beauty.
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A raspberry double-sided silk bustier dress was sewn from a single piece of fabric.
Chiuri developed silhouettes based on the bat sleeve of the Bar Jacket – the centerpiece of the iconic 1947 Dior "New Look" that revolutionizes post-war fashion
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