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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.
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.
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.
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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