Dior's next designer successor reveals new candidates

Azzedine Alaia

Azzedine Alaia just confirmed that Dior really wants to invite him as the new creative director

The fashion industry's conjectures for Dior's next creative director vary from Riccado Tisci, Alber Elbaz, and Marc Jacobs, who have been repeatedly mentioned to some of the emerging names such as Haider Ackerman and Sarah Burton. The only thing that hasn’t been talked about is Azzedine. Alaia. However, he just confirmed that Dior really wants to invite him as the new creative director.

But think carefully, Dior's approach can also be understood, Mr. Azzedine Alaia has always been considered a very influential designer, he created a fashion brand with extraordinary excellent fashion vision. In addition, he is still one of the few remaining designers with superb tailoring skills. Dior brand lacks a designer who can serve as a designer clothing line. All lack high-end skills.

Azzedine Alaia, a legendary fashion designer known as "King of cling"

Azzedine Alaia, a fashion legend designer known as "King of cling." Azzedine Alaia was born in Tunisia instead of the 4 major fashion capitals. He is just 160cm tall and has a 180cm supermodel beside him. He has been holding fashion releases for a long time, but all fashion editors are rushing to him. In the Fashion world full of competition, new, old and light, the designers have only one word for him: admire!

In the 81st, he held his first season fashion show, which was popularly promoted by ELLE editor Nicole Crassat and was finally known to the world from a secret that was well-preserved in Paris's upper reaches. At that time, affected by the sexual liberation movement of the 1970s, following the SM trend of the fashion industry in the late 1970s, the sexy requirements of fashion design reached its peak. Alaia cleverly developed this sexy side to be more exaggerated and repressed. Design Logo: Both sober and discreet, and super sexy. He used leather and stretch cotton to design a “second-skinned” skirt for women. The secret lies in his “cut, cut, or cut”. He often uses more than 40 precision tailored fabrics to piece together a piece of clothing. The principle of tailoring and material is like an ancient corset, which tightens and pushes your body upwards. After numerous modifications of the fitting, hand stitching, really can be called in the use of fabric sculpture (after all, he was the first to learn sculpture in art school).