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Dior opens Paris fashion week with homage to modernising designer Marc Bohan
Show in Tuileries Gardens pays tribute to Bohan, who died last year aged 97
In 1967, Dior was the first Paris haute couture house to embrace the racy new idea, dreamed up the previous year by the whippersnapper Yves Saint Laurent, of “ready to wear” designer fashion. He dispatched with individual fittings and the traditional three-month wait, and gave this new generation boutiques – named Miss Dior – where fashion could be bought off-the-peg. Photograph: Christophe Petit-Tesson/EPAThis translated on the catwalk into that version of Parisian chic that leans into a Rive Gauche, Gauloises-scented moodboard: tight black polo necks worn with swinging gold pendant necklaces, wide-legged denim, and gently flared trousers with matching tunic tops.
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