PRS_088 Robe en moire, John Galliano - Christian Dior, 2005
Embroidered moire and voided velvet dress
This look has all the hallmarks of an imperial vision: volume, a crimson colour, and ermine fur trimming the bottom of the dress. John Galliano's collection is influenced by the film Sissi - The Young Empress (Ernst Marischka, 1956) and is perfectly at home in this opulent Second- Empire setting from 1861. Inspired by a long trip to Vienna, Istanbul and Central Europe, Galliano picked up a very 19th-century decorative spirit, to which he blends 'pin-up glamour' with nods to Persian and Ottoman motifs, such as these blue embroidered designs that echo the ceramics produced in Iznik in what is now Turkey from the 15th century onwards.
Louvre Couture, Objets d'art, objets de mode
Musée du Louvre Paris
PRS_088 Robe en moire, John Galliano - Christian Dior, 2005
Embroidered moire and voided velvet dress
This look has all the hallmarks of an imperial vision: volume, a crimson colour, and ermine fur trimming the bottom of the dress. John Galliano's collection is influenced by the film Sissi - The Young Empress (Ernst Marischka, 1956) and is perfectly at home in this opulent Second- Empire setting from 1861. Inspired by a long trip to Vienna, Istanbul and Central Europe, Galliano picked up a very 19th-century decorative spirit, to which he blends 'pin-up glamour' with nods to Persian and Ottoman motifs, such as these blue embroidered designs that echo the ceramics produced in Iznik in what is now Turkey from the 15th century onwards.
Louvre Couture, Objets d'art, objets de mode
Musée du Louvre Paris