John Galliano decided that blood, skeletons, whips and chains are long overdo in the world of haute couture. His collection for Dior was dramatic, magical and bordered on scary/sexy. The Dior show opened 3 days of haute couture fashion here in Paris. The models looked as if they were apparitions straight out of a surrealistic French Revolution. Their hair was bleached white, dark rims painted around their eyes and the color red was absolutely EVERYWHERE.

My favorite piece (and a crowd pleaser) was an ecru dress with a huge tulle skirt with the slogan prominently displayed: “liberte, egalite and fraternite.”

Security was ultra tight for this show, but being a student has its privleges. I will be catching the Dominique Sirop show later today and the Franck Sorbier show on Wednesday. The season has started.

-Meryl

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Yesterday we gave a preview for our new photosite Look. Today we show you the other side of look, the outtakes. Sure it’s cool to look at the finished product of a photoshoot, but sometimes the fun is actually witnessing how we got to creating the scenes in the shoot. So take a look at WinterWear 05, click the bottom left square on the gallery to see the make-up and hairstyling gurus Dennis Bailey and Michelle Jongeneel.

575 Broadway was hit with a fire last night, including a Prada store that had apparently just received a shipment of $5 million of merchandise (I bet those vinyl bags are extra-flammable) and soaking the $800,000 Brazilian zebra wood floor. Oh the tragedy… and by tragedy, I mean there are poverty-stricken children in Haiti… and by poverty-stricken, I mean they are getting to meet Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (not to mention their genetically-perfect spawn) right now, who probably have some Prada somewhere on their bodies.

Source: Gawker, who sourced Verbose Coma

-Ali