“Dior and I”: A poorly fitting movie published by Dior – ZEIT ONLINE

A documentary shows the emergence of the first Dior collection by fashion designer Raf Simons. But while the cuts are brilliant, the film loses its thread.

25th June 2015 15:33 clock

The Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons at work | © CIM Productions

The fashion designer Christian Dior himself a few years for the company “Christian Dior” worked, but he is present to this day: The seamstresses and night watchman tell from the shadow that they perceive during their night shifts in the corner of my eye, zuklappenden doors and steps in the hallway. That is the spirit of the founder, employees say: He looks to see if everything works. Christian Dior has never left.

In the documentary Dior and I is the story told over and over again, when no employee is likely to be caught going to have Christian Dior missed spirit. The myth is also a clear indication in the direction of the creative directors: The role of genius is reserved for Christian Dior. His successors can congenially interpret his work at best.

In 2012, this was called successor Raf Simons. From his first collection, the film tells. The Belgian was changed from Jil Sander to Dior after John Galliano only Adolf Hitler had vowed and was then exiled. Probably, the company also has therefore decided to allow a documentary film about the first few weeks of Raf Simons, an unheard step in discrete fashion world: In recent weeks by Galliano of Dior name appeared quite often in the context of anti-Semitism. It should nevertheless go to beauty to grace, tradition and subtlety

Of which there are in the house of Dior is actually abundant. As a Raf Simons presented the seamstresses

at the beginning, he is facing a phalanx of good taste , Some employees work for several decades here, they have the creative directors come and go: Some could take on the spirit of Christian Dior, others do not. Simons nevertheless they seem well disposed, they take him kindly. When the shy Simons said that he could not guarantee that he will live up to expectations, they answer him: “We will help you.” Still is something dark in the eyes of the fashion designer, awe, perhaps, or in fact: fear

Simon had to make his first haute couture collection completed within the insanely short period of eight weeks.. The date for the presentation was clear for a long time. Usually there are at least four months to. Unlike the fashion designer Raf Simons to work for the director Frédéric Cheng becomes rather simple: In the film, a countdown is a grateful style means to bring pace and structure. Just like in a thriller that can result in only life or death, it is constantly in this film at all. Each to deep-seated seam, each slipped hem, any recalcitrant material can cost the crucial half hour that is missing at the end