The artisanal work of Raf Simons at the House of Dior is something we've tracked since the designer debuted his first haute couture collection in 2012. Ahead of the impending spring/summer 2016 season we take a glance back at last season which inspired our latest September Issue story, Making Tracks, photographed by Julien Vallon and styled by Marjorie Chanut, as model Milena Feurer showcases the autumn/winter 2015 collection from Dior.
Last season we referred to the Dior muse as a new age power woman. The focus on the autumn/winter 2015 season - as ever - was all about newness and the appeal of house codes. For creative director Raf Simons, that meant transporting the Dior woman away from tired iterations, and instead introducing her to a fresh avant-garde mindset. Simons's foray in print and abstract pattern wasn't unknown terriority for the designer, however. Over the past few seasons he has proved his potential as a fashion encyclopedia of sorts - referencing the old and the new, reinterpreting the classic bar jacket and forceably changing up how we, the consumer, approach haute couture as elevated streetwear.
