s/s2009 haute couture

s/s2009 haute couture collection video from youtube

Dior Spring Haute Couture 2009-10 Full Show - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFTJVm5rDGE

Dior Spring Haute Couture 2009-10 Full Show - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE2C6xno39E

review from style.com
http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/S2009CTR-CDIOR
PARIS, January 26, 2009
By Sarah Mower

There are only two questions anyone is asking Paris couturiers this season: "What are your inspirations?" followed swiftly by, "And what do you think about the recession?" John Galliano's answers were "Flemish painters and Monsieur Dior," and to the point, "There's a credit crunch, not a creative crunch. Of course, everyone is being more careful with their discretionary purchases. I am. But it's our job to make people dream, and to provide the value in quality, cut, and imagination."

He'd cross-referenced the soft blues and golds of Vermeer and the elaborate lace collars and sleeves of Van Dyck with typically Galliano-esque hyper-exaggerations of Dior's tight-waisted, full-skirted fifties shapes. As a starting point, it evoked some of the romantic femininity of Dior's silhouette, but with surface ruffles and bouncing crinolined hemlines that went way beyond any sense of postwar austerity. As for the seventeenth-century Dutch elements, there were cross-laced corseted backs and cartridge-paper scrolls standing out on hips, and, as things progressed, tulip prints and blue-and-white Delftware embroideries peeking from the underskirts. The finale dress, in a gorgeous deep burnt red, had the stately dignity of an historical movie costume—not so much Girl With a Pearl Earring as Rembrandt's Jewish Bride ( OK, that's yet to be made, but the color's exact).

Oddly, though, the clothes became lovelier when the collection didn't stick so literally to the Old Masters—either painterly ones, or the founder of the house. When Galliano escaped the sweet Vermeer palette and moved into ivory, as he did with a slim dress implanted with raw-edged georgette rosettes and embroidered with silver leaves, or with an ingenue off-the-shoulder fifties dance dress banded with black bows, it all seemed simpler, fresher, less stilted. And more like the kind of thing that will actually keep Dior clients dreaming, and, hopefully, spending.

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Flemish (Vlaams in Dutch) is a popular informal term to refer to Belgian Dutch (Belgisch-Nederlands in Dutch), Dutch as spoken in Belgium.

influenced by the flemish painters ( Van Dyck and Vermeer ), the color of his design includes:
yellow ( like gold ) and soft blue

Monsieur (plural: Messieurs) meant "my lord" (mon seigneur) in Middle French, and is now generally used in French as an honorific for all men (not possessing a knighthood or some higher rank), the equivalent to the English titles "Mister" and (in some senses) "Sir".

influenced by Monsieur Dior, the color of his design includes:
black, ivory and red

other color used: red orange
it's quite like the kimono

more about this collection:
http://watch.fashiontelevision.com/collections/designers/christian-dior/clip147774#clip147774

color thorey applied:

Sequence of color

Each color appears in a certain order to succession, keeps the same position in each repeat, and leads the eye in the direction of progression.

-> yellow, blue, ivory, yellow, blue, ivory, blue, ivory, black, red, ivory, black+ivory, ivory, black+ivory, ivory, blue, pink, red orange, red

mainly: black and ivory ( white )
-> Achromatic

other colors: blue, yellow, red orange and red
-> Analogic and Complimentary Color Scheme