Galliano’s recent Fall/Winter Couture collection was not a show stopping parade of devastating design and vision. Instead Galliano distracted the attendee’s with some seldom seen faces on the catwalk. Naomi and Shalom are not models to write home about, they’ll show up at the drop of an invitation from Galliano. Instead it was two other former supermodels, one took to old tactics and the other reemerged from seclusion. First up was the infamous chameleon taking another swing at being a red-head! Linda Evangelista dyed her hair red prior to show; some gossiped that she jumped back to red to stand out over the shocking return of Karen Mulder to the runway.

Mulder, one of the blond bombshells of the late 80’s supermodel wave which carried into the 90’s, she abandoned the runway and fashion world after a long battle with depression, a suicide attempt that put her in a coma and failed attempt at music career. In late 2006 Mulder gave birth to her daughter Anna and after her almost 10 year hiatus she reemerged on the couture runways. Now as much as I love Linda for attempting to bring back the red, it’s such a desperate attempt to one-up Karen. Karen Mulder takes the crown for best entrance for the new season of shows. Now I would love to see Karen at Chanel.

Another big return to the runway at the Dior Couture show was the triumphant return of the black hair vixen Mariacarla Boscono. She’s has been absent from the runways for the last two seasons. Although Galliano continues is excessive need to reinvent Dior’s new look, this season the collection was a dud. The show stopping parade of supermodels was the only card he could play. Galliano seemed to have phoned it in this season. While I adore the trumpet return of Mulder and Boscono, the collection lacked drive or direction. Even the models makeup made this point. Galliano is known for visionary partnership with Pat McGrath but this season only regular models had some sort of paint on their faces. While their mentors appeared fresh faced for the perfect photo ops! Some have even blamed the blasé collection on the recent passing of Galliano’s right hand man Steven Robinson. There might be some truth to this notion as Galliano has always been the personality of the design team while Robinson gave it energy and life. We miss you Steven Robinson, we really do!

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