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christian dior haute couture s/s 2000, a collection that caused controvorsy and was nicknamed ‘hobo couture’: “I love the decadence,” said Galliano of the collection, who had been inspired by seeing hoboes on his daily jog by the Seine to create taffeta patterned with newsprint (the International Herald Tribune’s fashion pages, no less!) and characters from Diane Arbus photographs of disconnected people on mean streets. in this Dior collection, Galliano went back to his roots: to the maniacal mix of sex, romanticism and chaos of his own early collections. This is, in a way, what Dior hired Galliano for: to make headlines and images, to shock and shake-up. via

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