Brazilian model Gisele Bunchen took to the catwalk in a Machu Picchu-style punk outfit to open John Galliano’s autumn/winter collection for Dior at the Paris shows on Thursday.
And in doing so, she launched a round-the-world fashion journey which took the audience from the peaks of the Andes to the Central European homelands of the gypsies. In a picture-postcard display of ethnic colour, Galliano teamed Peruvian mohican-crested hats with gilt leather micro kilts and Innuit boots. Exotic East and the frozen Arctic snuggled up in a mad juxtaposition of skirts tinkling with temple bells, tribal fur anoraks and Nanook of the North headwear.
The designer touched down in Kathmandu with a pair of leather jeans smothered in tiny mirrors and explored Aztec-inspired embroidery on bodices and trouser hemlines.
Flowing Romany print fabrics were teamed with de-structured fur overcoats in rainbow hues which smacked of the Russian steppes and pale models sizzled in earth green, Yeti-style fake fur jackets. Galliano’s creative inspiration wasn’t only geographically diverse. He also time-travelled effortlessly between the Forties, Fifties and Seventies, sampling, tasting and borrowing from each decade with gay abandon. The result was an audacious sampler of luxurious fabrics and looks scattered with street-wearable gems.
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Photo: © Alphapress.com
Photo: © Alphapress.com
