#inside dior

[biscuitsarenice]

“The style of showing is completely different now than it was before. We had the so-called ‘French Couture’ style. The idea was to glide. Nowadays, the idea is to walk... decidedly. There was no emphasis on hips at all, so that you did the glide, the couture glide.” Svetlana Lloyd - In-house Mannequin for Christian Dior, she walked for Dior in the '50s.

“In the old days it used to be more like, you know, more like a woman almost floating through the room. Now, that’s changed a lot. Here we are all you know it's quite tough and quite fast. You don’t smile.” Lena Hardt - Model

Inside Dior

[houseoftrajano]

I just watched the 2 episodes of Inside Dior, a series of documentaries by Channel 4 about Maria Grazia Chiuri take on the brand. I must say, it’s really interesting to see some aspects of this huge brand that is Dior, for example the haute couture shows are such a spectacle, not just in terms of conception but also development, we get to see the faces of the couture buyers, the 0.1% of the population that can actual buy those clothes. 

There was this scene where this gorgeous asian trans woman gets asked ‘how many couture pieces she usually buys from every show’ and she goes ‘oh, around 10′ and I fucking gagged.

If anyone is interested here is the link for it and you must create an account to watch it. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/inside-dior