Clean Cuts From Dior and Celine at Paris Fashion Week

Clean Cuts From Dior and Celine at Paris Fashion Week
A model wears a creation for Christian Dior's Spring-Summer 2016 ready-to-wear fashion collection, presented during the Paris Fashion Week in Paris, on Oct. 2, 2015. AP Photo/Francois Mori
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Christian Dior—Petals Please

The delphinium flower has been associated with lightness and transcendence. Multiply that by thousands of blooms inside the oldest courtyard of the Louvre museum and that’s a lot of lightness and color. Perhaps Christian Dior designer Raf Simons was after the same visceral response from his audience upon viewing his Spring-Summer 2016 ready-to-wear fashion collection as they felt from the impressive flower installation.

Indeed what took place on the runway underscored the theme with crisply-cut cotton dresses and shorts. The scallop-edge motif carved out pretty convex and concave hemlines. The most impressive pieces were the sheer dresses that allowed for different transparencies in the fabric. It was a look that could easily translate into bridal wear. Should Simons offer such delicacies in his couture collection, it would surely spark the imagination of future brides.

A model in a creation for Christian Dior during the 2016 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on Oct. 2, 2015 in Paris. (FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images)
A model in a creation for Christian Dior during the 2016 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show, on Oct. 2, 2015 in Paris. FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images