What Do Depeche Mode, Dior and Versailles Have In Common? Secret Garden, A Short Fashion Film by Inez and Vinoodh.

With a great song by Depeche Mode, stunning couture, sexy models and the luxurious Versailles Palace and Gardens as a backdrop, how can you go wrong? (Okay, so I could've done without the tear at the 2:30 mark...)



Photographers/directors Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin celebrate the newest collection from fashion house Dior with Secret Garden, a three minute and 41 second film featuring the looks of the Fall 2012 collection.



Model Daria Strokous invites you to follow her on a wondrous path that winds through the Galerie des Glaces, through the palace's endless interconnecting salons, as far as the grand tree-lined walks that sweep through the classic parkland à la française.





Along the way she's joined by fellow models Melissa Stasiuk and Xiao Wen Ju for a dreamlike fashion show where Versailles is transformed into Christian Dior's secret garden, his emblematic château. D'or et Dior.




credits:
Dior "Secret Garden Versailles" (long version)
Film by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin,
Models : Daria Strokus, Melissa Stasiuk and Xiao Wen Ju
Creative Direction : Robert Lussier & Mia Forsgren
Music : Depeche Mode "Enjoy the Silence"
Editor : Otto Arsenault
DP : Léo Hinstin
Lighting Director for Inez & Vinoodh : Jodokus Dreisen
Steadicam : Eric Bialas

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As Beautiful Coming As Going. The Givenchy A/W 2012-13 Haute Couture Collection.

The Autumn Winter 2012- 2013 collection of Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy consisted of only 10 designs. But those ten designs are absolutely jaw-dropping with their impeccable detailing and craftsmanship.



Mixing elegant feminine silhouettes reminiscent of the 60s combined with the opulence of Gypsy-like capes, elaborate trimmings and edgings, Tisci has created pieces with as much attention to the rear view as the front view.




Each element is laden with complicated handiwork: beading, fringe, basketweave-woven leather, even mink - sheared, shaved and cut out to resemble embroidery and as trim. I can't do the collection justice with words. Just look at the breathtaking photos from the collection's debut in Paris.

These ten pieces really exemplify Haute Couture:






























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