Postcard from Paris: Everyone's Underwear is Showing at Dior
I remember about five years ago how risque it seemed when we all started wearing camisoles as proper clothing. Specifically, I remember my father turning to my mother one night and asking, slightly horrified and totally bewildered, why I was wearing my underwear out to dinner. Well, if I plan to follow the current fashion gestalt, my father is in for an even bigger shock this spring: there's never been a fashion moment that's more about underwear as outerwear than what's coming up next season.
In his show last Friday, John Galliano for Christian Dior (the man being touted as the first to reinvigorate this theme, introducing it in his most recent couture show) presented '40s film noir femmes fatales (red lips, Rita Hayworth waves and wartime patent wedges) in the silkiest of lingerie. He started with lace-trimmed tap pants, teddies, bras, corsets and slip skirts mixed with a series of cropped trenches or nipped-waist jackets.
He then moved on to slip or sheer short dresses and closed with full-on night-gown looks over the aforementioned undergarments. This is the future, and it looks racy.
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