My understanding of Christian Dior
From my research of Christian Dior Fashion shows these months, I found out what as everyone thought, John Galliano is so unpredictable. He can have innovation from everywhere.
Background of Christian Dior: Christian Dior always leads before the fashion trend. Christian Dior was the one who invented “The New Look’’ – brushed away bad memories of wartime. Over the next decade, he inspired the world by his forward-thinking and appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Since then, there were numerous famous designers continuing his flame. Of course, the most memorable one would be John Galliano. He brings out the sensational creation of the house of Christian Dior.
From history to now, it is not hard to realize that Christian Dior creations are always thought-provoking and amazing, the creation of Christian Dior always in ‘a new look at anytime time’.
The collections of Christian Dior are not only about black and white, they are often in a wide range of colors; at the same time promote the sense of elegance.
Mood of Christian Dior: Christian Dior always tries to underline elegance and femininity of women through innovative design.This also influenced the silhouettes and fabric used in design. The silhouette is always in streamed line to focus the body curve of women. Lace, chiffon and silk were mostly used in the collections. But excitement can still generate from the innovative design.
Color Forecast for Christian Dior 2010 Fall
Influence from Street fashion: The streets fashion of some big cities would also influence the future color trend, such as Paris, the center of Art and London. Refer to the latest snapshots from these two big cities, there is a similarity can be found. Bright colors are hit. This matches with the usual style adopted by Dior House (John Galliano). The use of bright and sharp colors of Galliano was so famous and sophisticated. He is an expert in playing colors. So, the high intensity colors may continue be used for the coming year.
Influence from current social impact: Economic downturn has trapped worldwide consumers in the shroud of grey and sadness since the end of 2008. More bright color should be pumped up to stimulate the morale of consumer, as well as their buying behaviors. This was done successfully in the Dior Fall 2009 RTW collection and should continue in the coming year.
Another hot topic currently is global warming. It is still a serious problem that rise public attention. And, freshness is needed in the current dull and depressed society. So I suggest Green will also be a hit color.
Influence from previous collections: Among the fashion shows of Dior’s in current years, I find that the use of colors in most Fall collections is more diverse compared to the Spring collections. So I will focus on Dior’s Fall RTW fashion shows now.
In 2009 Fall RTW, the collection is full of Asian culture. It was with the dominant use of purple, yellow and red.
In 2008 Fall RTW, the collection is like a 60s party. The colors used were so bright and sharp, with fuchsia, sharp orange, glorious purple and water blue.
In 2007 Fall RTW, although the design and color used were mature and ‘grandma-like’ (as Galliano said), still, there were more than 3 leading colors in the collection and style as 40s.
Except the 2006 &2002 Fall RTW collections, the Fall RTW collections in the recent 10years were all very colorful. It’s not hard to predict that the coming 2010 Fall collection would also use more than 3 to 5 colors.
Color Forecast: With reference to the previous collections of Dior House, there were 3 colors that can be seen in almost all of the shows. They are yellow, purple and red. As well as the suggested color, green. So I believe that these 4 will appear in the coming collection too.
The forecast of these 4 colors also based on the current street fashion and society environment. Economic tsunami keeps consumers depressed in sadness and defeat continually. Environmental problem is serious. It’s the time to cheer the world up.
Yellows, it gives emotion of joy, brightness and warmth.
Reds, it brings out passion, love and energy.
Purple, it represents intelligence and wealth in both western and Chinese culture. (As Asian influences becomes greater, it should take Asian preferences in account too)
Green: nature, fresh and health
These 4 colors should be used in high intensity to be sharp and smart.
From my research of Christian Dior Fashion shows these months, I found out what as everyone thought, John Galliano is so unpredictable. He can have innovation from everywhere.
Background of Christian Dior: Christian Dior always leads before the fashion trend. Christian Dior was the one who invented “The New Look’’ – brushed away bad memories of wartime. Over the next decade, he inspired the world by his forward-thinking and appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Since then, there were numerous famous designers continuing his flame. Of course, the most memorable one would be John Galliano. He brings out the sensational creation of the house of Christian Dior.
From history to now, it is not hard to realize that Christian Dior creations are always thought-provoking and amazing, the creation of Christian Dior always in ‘a new look at anytime time’.
The collections of Christian Dior are not only about black and white, they are often in a wide range of colors; at the same time promote the sense of elegance.
Mood of Christian Dior: Christian Dior always tries to underline elegance and femininity of women through innovative design.This also influenced the silhouettes and fabric used in design. The silhouette is always in streamed line to focus the body curve of women. Lace, chiffon and silk were mostly used in the collections. But excitement can still generate from the innovative design.
Color Forecast for Christian Dior 2010 Fall
Influence from Street fashion: The streets fashion of some big cities would also influence the future color trend, such as Paris, the center of Art and London. Refer to the latest snapshots from these two big cities, there is a similarity can be found. Bright colors are hit. This matches with the usual style adopted by Dior House (John Galliano). The use of bright and sharp colors of Galliano was so famous and sophisticated. He is an expert in playing colors. So, the high intensity colors may continue be used for the coming year.
Influence from current social impact: Economic downturn has trapped worldwide consumers in the shroud of grey and sadness since the end of 2008. More bright color should be pumped up to stimulate the morale of consumer, as well as their buying behaviors. This was done successfully in the Dior Fall 2009 RTW collection and should continue in the coming year.
Another hot topic currently is global warming. It is still a serious problem that rise public attention. And, freshness is needed in the current dull and depressed society. So I suggest Green will also be a hit color.
Influence from previous collections: Among the fashion shows of Dior’s in current years, I find that the use of colors in most Fall collections is more diverse compared to the Spring collections. So I will focus on Dior’s Fall RTW fashion shows now.
In 2009 Fall RTW, the collection is full of Asian culture. It was with the dominant use of purple, yellow and red.
In 2008 Fall RTW, the collection is like a 60s party. The colors used were so bright and sharp, with fuchsia, sharp orange, glorious purple and water blue.
In 2007 Fall RTW, although the design and color used were mature and ‘grandma-like’ (as Galliano said), still, there were more than 3 leading colors in the collection and style as 40s.
Except the 2006 &2002 Fall RTW collections, the Fall RTW collections in the recent 10years were all very colorful. It’s not hard to predict that the coming 2010 Fall collection would also use more than 3 to 5 colors.
Color Forecast: With reference to the previous collections of Dior House, there were 3 colors that can be seen in almost all of the shows. They are yellow, purple and red. As well as the suggested color, green. So I believe that these 4 will appear in the coming collection too.
The forecast of these 4 colors also based on the current street fashion and society environment. Economic tsunami keeps consumers depressed in sadness and defeat continually. Environmental problem is serious. It’s the time to cheer the world up.
Yellows, it gives emotion of joy, brightness and warmth.
Reds, it brings out passion, love and energy.
Purple, it represents intelligence and wealth in both western and Chinese culture. (As Asian influences becomes greater, it should take Asian preferences in account too)
Green: nature, fresh and health
These 4 colors should be used in high intensity to be sharp and smart.
Apart form the combination of different color hues, Galliano is also used to utilize different intensity of a color. So, monochromatic color scheme will also appears in the Fall 2010 collection. But Bright Shade, high intensity of colors would be the main colors.
Black and white will still appear as it is often used in every the Dior’s collections.
Conclusion
The current style of Christian Dior is full of bright and sharp colors, the variety of color are very broad. So I will forecast totally 4 colors, adding the achromatic black & white. Choosing a color theme for Christian Dior is not an easy task. As Galliano would sometimes use vintage color, or inspired by surrounding things. But one thing to sure, is Dior will always shape out the elegance and femininity of women.
To feel and look at our surrounding is the essential criteria in color forecast, as well as trend analysis. What I gain form lectures and this research is not the history of Dior or the knowledge on color, but how to arise interest and sensitivity is the most important.
