I love when people say to me, “Los Angeles is turning into a fashion capital!” WTF, people? Not only have Chanel, Gucci. Saint Laurent, Dior Hommes, Celine, Burberry and Louis Vuitton shown here within the last decade – but think about film noir, 1930’s movies, and every red carpet that ever was.
Jonathan Anderson sees the big picture: only one year into his tenure as Dior’s Creative Director, he worked the references of Christian Dior’s 1947 New Look and Hollywood’s cinematic legend altogether – with the Dior cruise show’s movie set atmosphere at the new LACMA meeting the moment where the collection was inspired by Christian Dior’s costumes for Marlene Dietrich in Hitchcock’s Stage Fright: glitz, flowers, beading, robe coats, crowns. Is Anderson the new Karl Lagerfeld mixed with the eye of a filmmaker like Hitchcock? It sure looks that way.