Dior Haute Couture..minus John Galliano

Anticipation can be one’s greatest enemy so if one expects nothing, you cannot be disappointed.  It would have been difficult to think that Dior might seamlessly segue from the hands of John Galliano to a time when he is not at the helm and flourish.

The haute couture at Dior has been an over flowing reservoir for the brand under Mr. Galliano’s leadership for over a decade.  He provided a stodgy old house and brand with a life that it could never imagine so this first show minus his talents might simply be regarded as disappointing…at least that would be putting it mildly.

Yes the comparison to Galliano is inevitable so why try to be an imitation of what was?  Dior conjures so many images, yes so many were used by Galliano but there were so many options and so many roads not taken, The vocabulary of Dior is huge so why didn’t someone tell these 2, who think they had the chance of their lives, to be their own people and be the new Dior and not some second rate version of the Dior that was of the Galliano era.