(22 Jan 2007) SHOTLIST
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AP Entertainment
Paris, 22nd January 2007
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2. Various of Dior catwalk show.
3. Various of John Galliano on catwalk
GALLIANO DELIVERS ANOTHER FLAMBOYANT COLLECTION
The stars will be looking to Paris this week, as designers show their best red carpet ensembles at Fashion Week ahead of the high point of Hollywood's awards season, the Oscars.
Flamboyant British designer, John Galliano lived up to his reputation serving up another theatrical show for his Haute Couture collection for Christian Dior.
The show was a sumptuous display of Oriental splendour drawing on Galliano's recent trip to Japan to produce kimonostyle gowns featuring intricate origami pleating and shimmering floral embroidery.
The slowpaced presentation had models posing languidly on a gray set that evoked Dior's historic headquarters on avenue Montaigne, where the founder of the house first unveiled his revolutionary New Look 60 years ago.
Handpainted silk gowns with huge trains reflected the skill of the "petites mains", or "little hands," as the seamstresses who work in Paris couture workshops are known.
Only a handful of houses continue to produce these madetomeasure creations, whose price tags can run into six figures.

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