Daydreaming...

I feel like partying! To this party I would wear the dress in the picture below. It was created in 1998 by John Galliano for Dior and goes by the name "Maria Luisa". It now resides at the Metropolitan in New York. In this daydream it resides in my closet!

A few diamonds wouldn't really do any damage to my outfit, so I might add some of those too.

But let's not overdo it!

Dressed, bejeweled and coiffed, I would then float down a very fitting staircase. Like this one at the Paris Opera for example. If you're going to float down stairs in a dress like this, you will need one of those staircases that are just made to be the scenery for a grand entrance!

Then I'll be off to the ballroom. Splendid and candlelit of course! The hall of mirrors at Versailles would be a good location. And now you might wonder how the heck I'm going to be able to fit the Paris Opera staircase into Versailles?! Well, my darlings, don't forget this is only a dream. Anything is possible!

And there will of course be at least one champagne fountain involved!

Then I would dance al night long, in these shoes by Christian Louboutin - without any foot pains whatsoever! Yep. This really is only a daydream...

Dance, dance, dance! With only a short brake for the magnificent firework show.

Then back to the dance floor. Until the sun rises in the east...

...and it's time to close the curtains and fall into bed...

...too tired to take my dress and diamonds off...I'll have somebody else do that for me...

Christian Dior

I'm not a brand-snob. I never by anything just because it has a certain name attached to it. Since I love fashion I like looking through a few magazines once in a while to see what different fashion creators have been up to lately though. I recognize many of the names, and sometimes I can even see what designer did what just by looking at photo from someones fashion show. Most often not though...But of course there are a few I like more than others. My absolute favorite is Christian Dior. J'adore Dior! Ever since Monsieur Dior started his own fashion company in 1946, this man and his designers have managed to create exactly the type of clothing I personally fall for. In 1947 his first collection named "Corolle" ("circlet of flower petals") was shown. Dior himself said about this collection: "I have created flower women". His creations were almost architectural, with cinched in waists, padding around the hip and breast areas, and longer skirts that would flare out from the tiny waists. The amount of fabric that went into these dresses and skirts was outrageous after the long war years, when women had to "make do and mend" as it was called, and fabrics had been rationed. Some people complained about this. Others loved it. The luxury of being able to wear beautiful clothes again after the spartan days of WWII was welcomed by many. It was this "Corolle" collection that got the name "The New Look", and the essential traits of what denoted this can be seen in the first picture below, followed by some other masterpieces I wouldn't mind having in my closet.

Christian Dior died in 1957, and in 1996 John Galliano took over as head designer of the company. Sadly he was fired from the company earlier this year for the anti-semitic little speech he held at a bar on a drunk night out. Of course I don't agree with his racist beliefs, but we all have our faults, and if everyone got fired after blurting out stupid things when we were drunk. Well. Let's just say a frightful amount of people would have to look for new jobs very, very often...When it comes to creating amazing clothes though, Galliano was (and hopefully still is) a genius! His influences are his love of theatre and femininity, and he has said that his "role is to seduce". Below follows a few pictures of his lovely creations.