Showing Dior cruise collection I took Blenheim Palace of the Dukes of Marlborough: brand affair with England continues.
Cruise Impressions - a special genre: summer between seasons, fashion houses compete not only dresses and designers creativity, although this too, of course, but also the ability to use their rich tradition. Not smaller than the clothing here is important the choice of location - always with a story that is related to the great myths underlying DNA of the brand. Dior Resort 2017 show was no exception: the fashion elite were invited to the hereditary estate of the Dukes of Marlborough in Oxfordshire, Blenheim Palace, the beginning of the XVIII century with a magnificent park of the work of the founder of the English garden style Lancelot Brown.
Curiously, this palace was built to commemorate the victory over France in the War of the Spanish Succession, and in the second half of the XX century, it is a symbol of friendship between London and Paris.
It was here in 1954 and 1958 were fashion showsChristian Dior. These unusual impressions among the alleys of the park and under the arches of the palace came into the history of fashion. Runway length is three miles away, a hundred and twelve dresses, fur and forty-six models, thirteen of models: this in England of that time did not see. Collections presented as Dior himself, and the young Yves Saint Laurent, who in 1958 was the designer of the brand. The main audience, in addition to several hundred aristocrats, was Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth, known as an inveterate fashionista and patron of the arts.
And now the third show many years later - and again onPodium models in dresses with sleeves-lanterns, in bar-jackets, in magnificent blouses in a flower. All the symbolic codes of the House of Dior, primarily the floral print, which is the current designer duo Lucy Meyer and Serge? Yufiez mixed in an eclectic mix, complemented with asymmetrical skirts, leather tops, shortened trousers flared and leopard boots. The ball of fashion, colors and fantasy - to the princess Margaret and Dior himself, this idea would certainly have come to the liking.
