Dior in Marrakech.........
The show was spectacular… well, the production and setting were … but certainly not the clothes. There must have been an explosion in a dashiki factory and all the remnants were shipped to Dior. Supposedly this was an homage to YSL when at Dior in 1960 … let me be the first to say out loud that there is no way in hell YSL ever designed anything that looked or even resembled the likes of any of this.
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When one conjures the era of Marrakech of that time frame, one thinks of Talitha Getty and YSL and that whole entourage wafting in lighter than air caftans and djellabas as well as peasant blouses and zoave pants. So Ms. Meatball delivered one of the heaviest handed and ill-conceived collections of her less than glorious career chez Dior.
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If this was to evoke that hippie era ... I have a news flash for her... this was an epic fail and a head band doesn’t make it hippie time! I can’t find words to properly describe the ill proportioned clothes and the tsunami of ethnic prints which are more indigenous to Africa … the heart of Africa, as in tribal, than they are indigenous to Morocco which is Northern Africa but who’s paying attention ... it’s Africa.
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From the clumsy boots to clumsy silhouettes to the totally unappealing clothes that look more like they came from a souk or a stereotypical black ghetto of the era than from the YSL tenure at Maison Dior. It’s inconceivable that this ... well let me blunt ... this trash was shown and is even taken seriously. This woman hasn’t a clue, not an inkling of the house codes and this time around not only has Monsieur Dior spun a mile deeper in his grave but so has Yves.
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To give this any sort of positive review is living proof that money talks… advertising rules the roost as no women in her right mind wants to look like 95% of this and the other 5% only marginally so. It is no wonder that Dior never breaks out the numbers when it comes to clothes in their yearly earnings. I don’t see this playing well in Tokyo or Shanghai.
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BTW I am now of the school of thought that Maria is a misogynist!
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FYI….The dashiki is a colorful garment for women and men worn mostly in West Africa. It covers the top half of the body. It has formal and informal versions and varies from simple draped clothing to fully tailored suits. A common form is a loose-fitting pullover garment, with an ornate V-shaped collar, and tailored and embroidered neck and sleeve lines. It is frequently worn with a brimless Kufi cap, which is worn in Islamic communities in Africa and the African diaspora, and a pair of pants.
The djellaba is a long, loose-fitting outer robe with full sleeves that is worn in the Maghreb region of North Africa; its origin is Morocco.
African wax prints, also known as Ankara and Dutch wax prints, are omnipresent and common materials for clothing in Africa, especially West Africa.
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