Fashionable Friday : Dior de Triomphe


Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Dior de Triomphe © Shell-Sherree
{Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Dior de Triomphe © Shell-Sherree}


Ah, the power of being able to change a designer's colours on a whim with zero cost to the management.


While I started out with every intention of staying true to the lemon chiffon and 15 shades of grey used for the original gown by John Galliano for Dior, a suspected blood sugar droppage led me down the sweetheart lollies colourway path. If you're reading this, Mr Galliano, I'm sorry.  And oh, look: a diversionary French bulldog puppy! Pretty!

I may be a fashion neophyte, but I know what makes a 'My-God-but-you're-lovely' radar ping.  And this nod by John Galliano to legendary fashion illustrator René Gruau had my sonars all a-flutter. So let us stop the Paris traffic and take our 50 metres of silk and tulle for a spin while five crack teams of very tuckered out silkworms recuperate in a mulberry tree spa in an undisclosed location.  Gosh knows, they've earned it.  And on that note ...

Happy Fashionable Friday to you !
  

14 comments

  1. This is probably the color Mr. Galliano really wanted for his creation, but a momentary craving for limoncello led him down that other colorways path—and more's the pity, if you ask me.

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    1. Limoncello ... now there's a thought, ma chere !

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  2. I like them both. It might look good in pink, too, or lavender. I say we each choose a color, and perambulate along the Champs with our pooches, our pedicures, and our Veuve Cliquot. We will look like an ice cream parade, and everyone will want to march with us.

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    1. Sounds like a fine idea to me, dear Petrea! Who wouldn't love a Parisian ice-cream parade?! Perhaps Berthillon would name some flavours after us...

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    2. Caramel de Shell, Pistache de Petrea . . . ?

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    3. Oh, merci ma chère!! Et peut-être Champagne d'Alexa ... {surely the world needs more champagne-flavoured ice-cream...}

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    4. Shell Sherbet! Alexa Almond Divinity! Petrea Pecan Sandie! (oh, stop me...)

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    5. I'd stop you but I'd rather not, dear Petrea ... :)

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  3. Ella Jelly Bean, Puppermint, Wilmanilla...

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    1. Anyone would think you play with words for a living, Petrea ... oh, wait ...

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    2. It's not play! It's serious work, with breaks for ice cream.

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    3. If only F.Scott Fitzgerald had followed your model, dear Petrea.

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    4. He'd have been chubby, but maybe happier.

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    5. Wilmanilla would make anyone happier, Petrea. ;)

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