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Zazie
^ I don't think that's the only reason it isn't being critiscized because, themes aside, they are beautifully executed garments if nothing else. The couture technique is there in all it's glory, so to that end he did his job as couturier very well.
I just feel like, if people are going to rail on Galliano for pillaging art history then doesn't Saint Laurent deserve the same treatment for beading Van Gogh's irises onto a bodice or using Picasso-esque appliques on a cape.
style.com is wrong on this one. the actual list isChristian Dior FW 2007 Couture Model List
Gisele Bündchen (o)
Raquel Zimmerman
Mariacarla Boscono
Helena Christensen
Magdalena Frackowiak
Olga Sherer
Mariya Markina
Michaela Kocianova
Irina Lazareanu
Angela Lindvall
Vivane Orth
Melody Woodin
Ana Mihajlovic
Amber Valleta
Romina Lanaro
Alexandra Agoston
Vlada Rosylakova
Missing one here
Sasha Pivovarova
Doutzen Kroes
Kinga Rajzak
Jessica Stam
Stella Tennant
Tatyana Usova
Alison Nix
Marta Berzkalna
Alana Zimmer
Naomi Campbell
Flavia Olivera
Unnamed
Karen Mulder
Coco Rocha
Bruna Tenorio
Iekeliene Stange
Marcelina Sowa
Milana Keller
Natasha Poly
Inguna Butane
Kim Noorda
Linda Evangelista
Lindsay Ellingson
Caroline Trentini
Morgane Dubled
Lily Cole
Shalom Harlow (c)
I totally adore Gisele, but I got to agree she needs her couture card taken away form her It was like she got amnesia and forgot how to model. She was very arrogant and just over the topGisele was absolutely awful in this show. All her poses looked so put on and like she was really trying hard to look classy and elegant.
THis must be a thorn in PETA's ***
PARIS, July 2, 2007 – For all the grandeur of the event—the Orangerie at Versailles at night; the reunion of supermodel notables, from Linda, Naomi, Amber, and Shalom to Gisele on the runway—Dior's 60th anniversary collection had something elegiac about it. John Galliano drew romance and delicacy, rather than his more familiar roaring theatrics, out of a show ostensibly inspired by painters, fashion illustrators, and photographers. In fact, the underlying mood was of respectful homage to two men who devoted their lives to fashion and died too young: Christian Dior himself and Galliano's chief designer, Steven Robinson, who tragically passed away in April while working toward this collection.
A celebration of the achievements of Dior could only open with a redrawn memory of the 1947 New Look, the wasp-waisted, full-skirted silhouette that revolutionized the way women dressed after World War II. Galliano approached it through the artistic landscape that formed Dior's imagination and the great talents who represented his work to the public in magazines. The opening sequence, led by Gisele Bündchen in a black "Bar" suit and Raquel Zimmermann in an ivory circle-skirted dress, caught the black-and-white drama of Irving Penn's photography and the dashed-off pen-and-ink drawings of Eric, Gruau, Bouche, Bérard, and Cocteau. Color came in gradually, first through a hand-tinted 3-D rose whorled center-front on a white bustier dress, then developing into extravagantly realized palettes taken from portraits of women by the Impressionists, Dutch masters, Pre-Raphaelites, and the greats of the Spanish school.
Those color effects were ravishing. Running from the palest pinks through mauve, ice blue, crimson, orange, and emerald, they often appeared to shade from one hue to another in the rich folds of duchesse satin skirts and the tiny-bodiced jackets sitting above them. But if the exquisitely painted ladies made a wondrous display of the arts of the Dior atelier, there was another insistent subtheme rising through the show that put Galliano's personal stamp on the collection he has been orchestrating for ten years. For those who know his Spanish background, the clue was in the flamenco music and the passage of silhouettes drawn from Goya and Zurbarán, as if he had reached back to his roots for courage, as well as technical inspiration. At the end, when he came out costumed like a fight-hardened matador strolling the ring, it seemed less like his usual jokey posturing than an emotional statement.
– Sarah Mower
lol she thought she was selling hotdogswhen she waved at the crowd. But when she sat down, she became a bumbling fool!