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Dior Homme spring/summer 2010 catwalk collection

Dior Homme spring/summer 2010 catwalk collection

Few fashion houses have a heritage like Dior's and even fewer menswear labels have the luxury of a working atelier like Dior. This is what inspired designer Kris Van Assche's new collection. He points out that the ten staff in Paris have between them 300 years of experience. So he has returned to what Dior Homme is most famous for - the skinny black suit. This is about rediscovering a comfort zone, even though the Dior silhouette is perhaps the most constricting shape in menswear. His reinvention of this suit involved showing the inside as the well as the outside. As he says, "The inside can be as beautiful as the outside." The jacket becomes as fine as gauze so you can see the construction through the fabric. Indeed in some pieces the inside can even be worn separately and the jacket effectively becomes a shirt. Summer coats were reduced down to a silk-like fineness and the summer trench in flesh pink flowed over the body. In times such as ours, it makes sense to concentrate on strength and this collection was Van Assche's tribute to the extraordinary genius of the Dior atelier.

See all the photos from the Dior Homme spring/summer 2010 catwalk collection

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