The esoteric
equestrian theme for Dior resort 2019 is based on the escaranuza … the female riders that compete in Mexico’s version of
a rodeo. The escaranuza riders also
only wear garments of cotton or linen; simple, hard-wearing fabrics gussied up
with fabulous embroideries and silver objects. Doesn’t
it all sound so Dior ... so chic, so imaginative, and so pregnant with
possibility, so well researched yeah .... well, guess what? .. In the hands of Mamamiameatball
you get just one more ho-hum folly to add to the growing list of debacles that
the brand has produced under her tutelage.
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The clothes
are either pedestrian, yawn worthy, J Crew-ish, more Valentino than Dior and pretty
much just without purpose. Look on the bright side … Melania has finally found
a collection satisfies her belt fetish with ones that start right under her
boobs and extend up to about 6 inches in width covering the lower section of
her rib cage, provided she still has those ribs. Then of course, there were the
leather breast plates, her de rigeur transparency (nipples) and mukluks or
rubber stable/paddock boots to polish off this extremely chic and sophisticated
look ….. NOT!
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She has suddenly been taken with the Bar
jacket or some watered down version of
that and seems to think it is the
perfect mate with everything from shorts
to khaki to tulle but that is her demented
idea of how one combs one of the richest fashion archives and retains the DNA of the brand.
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Let’s return
to the theme which upon researching one finds that these women generally wear
sombreros; so one might imagine the possible fabulousity that might have happened with that
notion but la meatball turned sombrero into fedora ... makes sense yes? .. Not to mention the somber color palette which
surely looked drab and dull?
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Then once
again, the models are made up to look as
if they are not made up at all which suddenly might cast this sort of Sapphic
aura over the collection, certainly some of these clothes would be much more
appealing had they been shown as elegant and refined which is certainly more in
keeping with the reputation of the brand
but now we have to make a statement about empowering women AGAIN which at this point
has become quite tired at best, if not overstated by now, hence no heels nor
feminine footwear…. Each season we seem to get a new version of Dior Doc Martens.
To her credit though there were no tee
shorts with words or phrases on them but I wouldn’t give that long before they
return.
Olé might have been perfect or Olé Dior!!
Olé might have been perfect or Olé Dior!!
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My mind wanders
when Dior uses toile in this collection the pieces look as if they came from a
bedspread and then I think of toile at Oscar de la Renta and toile was superbly
elegant and feminine. Something is horribly askew with la mama and the heavy
handedness she has brought to Dior. There is no point in my beating this dead
horse as it died seasons ago soon after her appointment.
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Saying that
the brand has been tarnished is akin to saying that Maria Callas could carry a
tune! Nuff said
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