Dior Pre Fall 2015

Inside Kokugikan arena, while from a giant iron grill fall fake snowflakes wrapping into a fairytale an audience of 1,400 people, including Audrey Tautou and Hailee Steinfeld, parades Esprit Dior Tokyo, collection pre- 2015 fall of the French maison.

This abstract, futuristic and cinematographic cityscape is the screen that reflects the many inspirations of Raf Simons: Blade Runner, street style of Tokyo, urban sprawl, the experimentalism of Paco Rabanne in the Sixties, an old photo of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin dressed in sequins.

There's all this and more in this proposal by the Belgian designer.

There is the tradition, the iconic bar dress, now, reinvented in waxed cotton, rubber, jacquard floral, with pockets and heavy zippers, coat becomes a structured, introducing classic proportions within a modern, designed for a dynamic woman who divides her time between work and family.

" I was very interested to do something which relates very much to the idea of outdoor, which is the opposite of cocktail or red carpet or whatever " - Simons says - " I thought it was really relevant to add something to the garderobe...[and]create items that are really not present in Dior in this moment ó or not enough, in my opinion. You know, like a coat." 

If the latter is one of the protagonist, the other is knitwear: the turtleneck, covered with sequins are almost a second skin.

On this layer of sequins, are layered tunic-dresses worn with flat boots, Fair Isle sweaters, long fur vest.

The affinity does not leave big tracks in the collection and remains an echo in the memories of the early successes of Simons, in the creations of Christian Dior for the Empress Michiko, in a line spring-summer 2007 couture designed by Galliano.

The actual designer of Dior confirms, however, their talent in blending masculine and feminine, glamorous and praticality, portability and architecture, tradition, contemporary and future.