Perhaps the most exciting thing after actually watching the show up close and personal is the re-see.

Dior Diary: DAY two

Perhaps the most exciting thing after actually watching the show up close and personal is the re-see. Last evening, I was invited to the Dior Homme re-see at the atelier and it was like being invited to the treasure trove of fashion. The re-see is essentially for all the editors, the most important buyers and a few lucky fans.

At the re-see all the clothes from the show are displayed on racks and everyone invited has an opportunity to touch, feel, try and truly understand each and every garment. Kris Van Assche, the head designer for Dior Homme has always approached design in a very intelligent and clever way, accentuating on subtleties and nuances, rather than being loud and obvious. The many fashionistas who had flocked to the re-see were swooning at the immaculate and precise detailing, and most of all, at the truly luxe cashmere, leather and shearling the garments were made and molded with.

Kris had been on a holiday to India last August, and just as he returned, he designed the collection that was displayed yesterday. On a closer inspection of the clothes, a strong Indian influence revealed itself. The Nehru collar, the Sherwani-esque jackets, the Jodhpur inspired pleated pants were an ode to India, but like he does season after season, Kris had reworked and reinterpreted them in his own way, and made them very much Dior Homme statements, by either combining rigour and comfort in the same piece, or by mixing a military mood with light flannels and camel hairs that exuded an ease and elegance, and was entirely free of any pomp and ostentation. All the colors used were sober- black, beige, gray and the latest to hit the catwalks, greige.

The Dior Haute Couture show, which season after season remains the most anticipated show during Paris Couture Week is going to be the exact opposite of Dior Homme. Colours, madness, drama, spectacle, theater, opera and my favourite, cinema, are always the ingredients that the maestro John Galliano creates his shows with. Desperate to be in the audience, fanatics have been clamouring the House of Dior to get an invite to this show, which will be unleashed later tonight, at the sanctum sanctorum of high fashion, the Dior Salon on Avenue Montaigne. Now, this one is really going to be the High Art.

Watch this space!
This is the second 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