Dior goes back to basics with revamped 1950s look
BY THOMAS ADAMSON
Published: January 23, 2012
PARIS — Christian Dior revamped the 1950s New Look for its 2012 spring-summer haute couture collection, with stand-in designer Bill Gaytten playing it safe, with success, following last season's panning.
Models wear creations by British fashion designer Bill Gaytten as part of his Dior Spring-Summer 2012 Haute Couture fashion collection for women presented Monday in Paris. AP PHOTO Jacques Brinon - AP
Monday's show got started fashionably late — but Dior is tardy in more ways than one. The front row was abuzz over Dior's ongoing silence on the appointment of a new creative director.
Would it be Raf Simons, artistic director of Jil Sander? Or perhaps French designer Haden Ackerman?
But the fashionistas were quickly jolted back into focus as floaty silk crepe silhouettes with nipped waists — in shades of beige, aubergine, red, black and white — filed through the sumptuous salons of the couturier on the Avenue Montaigne.
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