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Until now, the combination of the three principles of New Look is a synonym for female beauty.
More than six decades have passed since the revolutionary New Look style, invented by Christian Dior, conquered the hearts of millions of women all over the world overnight and created the standard of female beauty: an wasp waist, a skirt, like a blossoming bud, a high bust. All! Three simple rules. There is nothing surprising in the fact that, until now, the combination of the three principles of NewLook is a synonym for female beauty. We tell you how to achieve a reference beauty in an everyday look.
The Dior Revolution
Showing the first collection of Kristan Dior in 1947 produced in the fashion world the effect of an exploding bomb on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean: in Europe and America. The gloomy period of war, restrictions and uniforms ended, and it was Dior who proclaimed the style of the new woman: light, elegant, feminine.
The new style was immediately called NewLook. Seeing the slim waist, voluminous skirts and accentuated bust at the show, Carmel Snow, editor-in-chief of the American Harper'sBazaar, exclaimed: "My dear Christian, your dresses are something completely new, a real newlook!"
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This phrase was heard by a Reuters news agency correspondent. Now he would send a message to the editor on whatsup, and then he just wrote this phrase on a piece of paper and threw it from the balcony to the courier.
It was February 12, 1947. On that day, the whole world recognized the image of a completely new woman, the style of New Look and Christian Dior himself. And the fashion revolution began ...
New Look Principles
The fragile, weightless and extremely feminine, new Dior woman is opposed to the hardy working woman, on whose shoulders the rear of the harsh war time rests.
Her silhouette is formed by supporting linen, creating a thin waist and high chest. Skirts with "wonderful folds", opening like fairy flowers, and a narrow jacket with a rounded peplum gives the silhouette an outline of figure 8. The length of the skirt is thought out so that the delicate female ankles appear in all their beauty. On their feet - elegant pointed shoes, not at all the cobblestones with wide square noses that were in fashion at that time. And on the head - an elegant hat.
This image was born by Christian Dior at the time of observing women from the First World War. Watching how women are waiting for the next issue of a fashion magazine and how they are inspired, turning pages, dreaming of lightness, beauty and love, he carefully cherished it in his soul. Then he began to sketch. Then Dior created a suitable mannequin: he took a chisel and a hammer, and he cut a tailor's mannequin, with architectural precision creating that silhouette that would become synonymous with poetry and femininity. “I wanted my dresses to be geometrically“ aligned ”, to fit the lines of the female body, stylistically shape the silhouette. I emphasized the waist, hip size, bust.To give the contours more rigidity, I knocked out almost all fabrics with percale or taffeta, reviving a long-forgotten tradition, "couturier later wrote in his memoirs.
The New Look revolution, Christian Dior, opened a new fashion page, changing the mindset of style-goers of those times as quickly as possible. Marlene Dietrich immediately bought several dozens of dresses in New Look style, before that she remained faithful to the men's style and trouser suits by Coco Chanel. The princess of Great Britain Margaret Rose, the younger sister of Elizabeth II, ordered a dress from Dior, who had just become famous, for her appearance at the Cercle de lUnion ball in Paris.
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French actress Genevieve Page opened the London French Film Festival in a satin white Christan Dior dress. And the famous model Cook Denis, the muse of Yves Saint Laurent, forever gave her heart to Dior, becoming the symbol of the new townswoman in a belted cloak, tulip skirt, shawl and glasses from Christian Dior. But ordinary women didn’t stand aside: inspired by the photo shoot of Marlene Dietrich in the Elle magazine and the cover of the L'Aurore newspaper, on which three women tear apart the desired New Look dress, the townspeople began to work wonders with their sewing machines. While honing their skills during the war, sheathe themselves up, they were already inspired by Dior's delightful things. Everyone was crazy about the new style, which a little later Christian Dior would call a return to the ideal of civilized happiness.
How to create a wardrobe in the style of New Look?
1.Get corrective underwear. Supportive panties with a high rise should keep the hips in tone, and create the effect of an aspen waist. A corrective bra should provide support for the chest.
2. Think about your perfect skirt: a wide waistband that secures a thin waist should provide perfect folds from it. Do not save on matter, think over folds so that they create the effect of a blooming bud.
3. Get pointed shoes matching the skirt (in the original Dior collection, both the skirt and the shoes are black). You can't save on shoes, so maybe it’s worth investing in Dior shoes once?
4. Standing in shoes in front of the mirror, measure the ideal length of your skirt, which will present your legs in the most favorable light. It can be up to the knee, just below the knee, to the middle of the calf or ankle.
5. Buy a fluffy pleated skirt.
6. Sew a narrow, tight-fitting silhouette of a cream-colored jacket over the patterns of the famous Dior Bar jacket. In the original collection, it is made of silk fabric and equipped with rounded basques.
7. Top with a cloak or trench of cream and sand color with wide shoulders and a skirt in the shape of an inverted letter V. Be sure to designate a signature Diorovsky wasp waist with a belt.
8. Optionally, complement the look with accessories: a hat or a head scarf, wide Dior glasses, a Dior handbag, a neck scarf.
Photo: dior.com
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