Dior walks in Paris without Galliano!

Without Galliano… Dior Couture Show Fails to Inspire! When your collection notes read like an abbreviated history of the art, architecture and fashion design of the 20th century, you know you've got a problem. Dior's first show ( Paris July 2011) in 15 years without creative director John Galliano.

Four months after Galliano was fired, and with no successor yet appointed, it was with bated breath that the small audience of fashion insiders waited to see how whoever was filling Galliano's immense shoes would fare. (With no permanent successor on the horizon, the collection was overseen by Galliano's longtime right-hand man in the Dior atelier, Bill Gaytten, who is now in charge of the Dior-owned John Galliano label.)

The reaction was underwhelming: Hoots and thunderous applause erupted from backstage, but the audience greeted the show with a short-lived flurry of halfhearted claps.

The collection simply lacked cohesion. With sections that channeled the fluorescent pop aesthetic of the 1980s, a sort of 1970s Marrakech bohemian vibe, and shiny modernist architecture, the show felt like a bunch of ideas thrown almost randomly together. It was like watching three shows in one — and not a particularly inspiring three shows, at that.

The nipped jackets and pouffy skirts were embellished with the sort of amoeba-shaped appliques in eyepopping shades that were last seen on the costumes of 1987 teen pop sensation Tiffany and worn with oversized plastic cubes or spheres in the guise of hats. Oversized ballgowns made from petals of delicate chiffon were accessorized with the kinds of cheap glitter-covered novelty headbands you might wear to ring in the New Year, and you couldn't quite tell if sparkly bits on the bodices were part of the dresses or just shreds of confetti.

Few of Dior's New Collection attracted my attention, surely nothing in the Ready to Wear, but in the Couture Show, Turned out that the ones i like were very close or nearly a copy of Galliano's earlier Collections. I Have added below few pictures of the Last Galliano-Dior show for Spring Summer 2011. Judge for yourself … I already did! Good luck Dior you desperately need it!