Finding the venue for the Dior Homme show on a wet, cold, grey and utterly dismal day was a feat in itself.

Dior Dairy: Day 1

Finding the venue for the Dior Homme show on a wet, cold, grey and utterly dismal day was a feat in itself. The invite cryptically revealed the address to be The Palais Omnisport at the Boulevard De Bercy u2014 a nondescript and unglamorous Parisian locale with multiple entrances and exits, and none that announced the unleashing of perhaps the most pivotal show for Men's Fashion Week, season after season. After mistakenly walking into lonesome parking garages and rusty warehouses, I suddenly stumbled into an area that was teaming with supersonic fashionistas, all of them clamouring to get into the Dior Homme show, and each of them dressed with such originality and panache that for a moment I wondered if this waiting area was actually the show itself. As I discovered a few moments later, the crowd outside was just the footnote to an afternoon of u00fcber cool.

Kris Van Ache, the very polite and genteel Dutch designer for Dior Homme, anointed the fall/winter 2010 collection COAL. But, he was clearly inspired by everything that hasn't been created yet, and like someone with a true gift, he combined all of that with the earthiest of elements, the bedrock, the core, the essence of creation. The floor of the circular room was strewn with rocks of coal, while the room itself was all black and circular and made one feel as though they were in a spaceship that had landed in the bowels of a coal mine, and then exploded.

When Kalyani Chawla introduced me to Kris backstage after the show, I told him that his cold and dark, warm and luxurious, soft and almost shapeless clothes were futuristic enough to be historic, and he agreed.u00a0The high voltage front row, with Dior Homme devote Karl Lagerfeld, supernova Kanye West and his half human half robot girlfriend Amber Rose and the legendary photographer Mario Testino, all applauded unanimously for the new silhouette now invented for men - single and double breasted jackets that end under the derriere, like they usually do, but from the front, they taper downward and end at the knee, so that they can be knotted up to give the outfit a multi-dimensional personality, are going to be all the rage.
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So very shoppertunitstic!
This is the first post in a daily diary by Mozez Singh, who is special guest for Dior couture show for fall/winter 2010, written exclusively for MiD DAY