Paris Fashion Week - Dior Alta Costura SS 2009

"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." Sarah Mower, de Style.com

Christian Dior by John Galliano Houte Couture Spring-Summer 2009