Christian Dior: Spring 2010 Ready-to-Wear

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[Interviewer] Were you at all surprised by that?

[Bruce Willis] No, not at all.

Appropriately cinematic?

Very dramatic.

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[John Galliano] I was inspired by the genre of film noir.

And also one of Dior s greatest,

most famous clients, Lauren Bacall.

The pages that I saw of Lauren, Humphrey Bogart,

and Avenue Montaigne greatly inspired me.

[Tim Blanks] John Galliano and film noir.

The perfect marriage.

[faint screams]

[Michael Howells] It s all about drama. Making a mini film

in fifteen minutes.

We sort of decided that we re inside the base

of the Statue of Liberty, taking that whole idea

of figures lost in a large building.

You see the guy with a gun, is he the bad guy,

but no, she s the femme fatale. He s the good guy.

[Interviewer] Bring back the slip.

[laughs]

[Peter Marino] I like the slip with the black line,

it was so good.

[Stephen Jones] Underwear is outerwear,

what does that say about the times?

Topsy-turvy, all these pieces of fashion

have been thrown up, and they re all falling down

in a different way at the moment.

[Interviewer] That was the perfect Dior collection

for you.

[Dita Von Teese] Definitely. Most of them are.

When he looks to the fifties era of Dior,

you really notice it and enjoy it.

Black Dahlia is surely your style icon .

Absolutely. But I d like to remain in one piece, though.

[John Galliano] I introduce Le Slip Ilusion,

illusion slip, they had no underwear on at all,

it was all cut, and the linings,

it was an illusion, like film noir.

[Stephen Jones] The foundations of Dior s new look,

he constructed all those over really unusual undergarments,

all the lingerie shapes that you saw were inspired

by the new look from 1947.

[Interviewer] What does the art of transparency

evoke for you?

[John Galliano] It s very Galliano, it s something

that I ve always found inspirational,

it s the lightness, the fragility,

whether it s see-through, x-ray,

none of that.

[Interviewer] It s two guys sitting around

talking about girdles.

[laughs]

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