After Chanel released its Maison d’Arts collection last year, Shanghai, the Chinese metropolis, further manifested its status as fashion hotspot. Recently Christian Dior also promoted its Cruise 2011 Collection here, which coincided with the reopening of its boutique in the Plaza 66 shopping mall as well as the inauguration of a retrospective.
As it is known, Christian Dior mixed France’s elegance and refinement into his creations and launched new trends and style that maintain the name and style. This Dior show is no exception. It was all about Parisian chic, featuring pastels, florals, and ruffles paired with big 1960s-inspired hair. As John Galliano said, he did not want to come and present Chinese-inspired collection, but wanted to come here with a French-inspired collection.
This collection show has lots of colors from candy-pink to leather black, marine blue, lollipop green, peachy orange, hot red and pure white. All of them look femininity as well as modern. In order to spice up this colorful show, Galliano brings rough and masculine materials which adds some professional feelings. The doll-like hairstyles and make-up is also a shining point of this show and presents John Galliano’s original and unique point of view.