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With the luxuriously full skirts of his New Look, suits and his drop-dead gorgeous evening dresses and ball gowns worthy of any princess, Dior gave women the gift of glamour they’d lost in the miserable years of war.
In the subsequent decade, Paris ruled as the undisputed fashion capital of the world, and Christian Dior reigned as its king. Rather than rationing, his ladies wanted reams of fabric and 19-inch waists enforced by wire corsets, and the fashion world concurred. They were cut and shaped like architecture, on strong foundations that molded women and “freed them from nature,” Dior said. His skirts could have 40-meter-circumference hems, and outfits could weigh up to 60 pounds. “This changes everything.”ĭior’s collection definitively declared that opulence, luxury and femininity were in.
“God help those who bought before they saw Dior,” said Snow. “It’s quite a revolution, dear Christian!” exclaimed Carmel Snow, the prescient American editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, famously proclaiming, “Your dresses have such a new look.” The press ran with the description, christening Dior’s debut Spring/Summer haute couture collection the New Look. They needed to dream anew.Īnd Dior delivered: He designed a collection for a bright, optimistic future. Just two years after the end of World War II, the fashion crowd and the moribund haute couture industry were yearning, comme tout Paris, for security and prosperity, desperate to discard the drab, sexless, utilitarian garb imposed by wartime deprivation. Just five years later, with the backing of industrialist Marcel Boussac, the ascendant Dior established his own fashion house, at 30 avenue Montaigne in Paris. After seven years as an art dealer, Dior retrained as a fashion illustrator, eventually landing a job as a fashion designer for Robert Piguet, and in 1941, following a year of military service, he joined the house of Lucien Lelong. This was the start of Dior’s rise in the city’s creative milieu, where he befriended Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. However, they agreed to bankroll an art gallery, which Dior opened in 1928 in Paris with a friend. His prosperous haute bourgeois parents wanted him to become a diplomat despite his interest in art and architecture. Hatfield would also follow these Air Trainer 3s up with a special pair of Air Jordan 6s for 1992's Batman Returns.When Christian Dior launched his couture house, in 1946, he wanted nothing less than to make “an elegant woman more beautiful and a beautiful woman more elegant.” He succeeded, and in doing so the visionary designer altered the landscape of 20th century fashion.ĭior was born in Granville, on the Normandy coast, in 1905. 'I had all the drawings, and they just basically created moulds and poured urethane parts, and then were able to take an existing shoe that I had selected and make it in all black and then put the knee-boot extension on top,' Hatfield told Complex's Brendan Dunne when discussing how the boots were made. In total, roughly eight pairs were produced for Keaton and his stunt doubles, making the pair that's being auctioned off extremely rare. Hatfield actually worked directly with Keaton on creating the boots, heading to the actor's house in Los Angeles to storyboard exactly what they should look like.
The boots take an Air Trainer 3 and modify it by extending its collar to knee height while also adding 'armour plating' to lock in a combat-ready look. Batman is a 'silent guardian, a watchful protector – the Dark Knight.' Though the Caped Crusader is locked in a never-ending battle with Gotham City's rogue's gallery, he's still got time to get a fit off every so often – and now, one of his most famous pieces of equipment is up for auction: the special Air Trainer 3 boots that Nike designer Tinker Hatfield created for 1989's Batman, directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton as the titular, brooding hero with the special sneakers.
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