Dior Homme

Women of an epoch of world wars didn't dare to be mollycoddles. On the one hand, they slowly but surely achieved equality with men (at least started to wear trousers); with another, were compelled to stick shoulder to shoulder with the stronger sex (during the vague moments of history strong female hands, as it is known, are appreciated not less an elastic breast). In 1947 Christian Dior showed to the world the style known as New Look. After decades of a fashionable ascesis the couturier returned to women the right to seductive forms. Despite skeptical crying of Dior`s colleagues, the ladies who yearned on the romanticist with readiness dressed hard corsets and magnificent skirts. 

In 2000 Fashion House Dior presented some kind of «new New Look» — this time man's. 32-year-old designer Hedi Slimane who headed the line Dior Homme, didn`t simply create new style in clothes, and changed representation how the man in general can look. Moreover, the fashion for the stronger sex, at last, ceased to be the poor relative of a fashion for the fair sex, and itself turned to a subject of hot discussions. Slimane lifted on a board a popular image androgin-metrosexual: slim trousers and jeans, and short and narrow jackets showed narrow-shouldered and the thinest (as well as the designer) models. Borders between man's and female silhouettes suddenly appeared so illusive that girls, without having waited, when Slimane will think up something for them, quickly pulled jackets and trousers Dior Homme (in a suit from Slimane Madonna and Nicole Kidman, for example, repeatedly noticed). Among this at creation of collections of the beginning 2000 other young Hedi Slimane was helped by even younger Belgian Kris Van Assche, the graduate of Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Hardly someone then could assume seriously that in April, 2007 Van Assche would replace Slimane with the position of Dior Homme creative director. Slimane left Dior House to be engaged in own fashion line. 

At that point in time Kris Van Assche brand existed the third year — the former assistant had time to become an independent figure of the fashion world. By the way this brand always differed original courage which comes back now and in Dior Homme collection. Van Assche combined T-shirts with stylish jackets, did jeans of silk, offered shorts as a variant of office clothes — and in new quality from it the eclecticism again waited. But the designer deceived expectations: in its first collection for Dior — white shirts, dark suits from jersey and infinite quantity of trousers of the most unexpected cut: from narrow to very wide. Underlining the laconicism, the designer spent display on an ancient country house. In the strict frameworks put by him, Van Assche is extremely attentive to details — for example, with might and main experiments a cut. The man from Dior is still thin, however holds muscles in a tone. Sharpness on the verge of a foul from Slimane elegance and anew open glossy courage have replaced classicism, the romanticist.