John Galliano's Christian Dior spring/summer 2011 couture collection paid big, big lip service to Dior illustrator, Rene Gruau. It was Gruau's 1950's brushstrokes that underscore the Dior's iconic imagery and heritage and as such, the New Look-era collection read like a love-letter to the maison's past.

Opening 50’s silhouettes starring nipped-in-waists and capacious skirts in vivid scarlets and blacks fed through into voluminous peplum’d, shouldered and hemmed dresses in jewel tones of jade, emerald and cobalt. Closing were frothy confections of romantic, rose-trimmed sugar-hued gowns.

Posted on January 25, 2011 at 6:01:01 by The Real Runway