Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2011 - Version 2.0

Good Morning Friends!
Sorry for the 5-6 day absence. I decided since I passed up my 600th blog post a few weeks ago, that I should give Igor+André a facelift. So that's what I've been doing over the last few weeks, and yikes, it was a learning experience. I didn't know much about web design/coding in blogspot format so I had a crash course in it. So what do you think of the new look? I really like how it turned out. I'm not sure about you, but looking through the site and the different categories is like rediscovering the content. For some reason I feel like the scroll through experience is light years better now. But I would love to hear your thoughts :)

I thought I would post the original Color version of my Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2011 painting. I posted a Black & White Version of the picture a few weeks ago, but i really like the color version too, so voila! Here it is. ;) I hope you like it, and hope you're having an amazing day!

Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2011

Well I'm not sure if you all have been following the Couture shows going on right now,
But a few days ago i was looking through the pictures of the amazing Christian Dior Haute Couture show,
and there was this one specific garment that I had to paint the second i saw it.
I really like how the painting turned out.
It's one of my biggest dreams to be invited to a couture show and getting to paint the collection!
That would be so insane... but until then i made this ; )
What do you think? Inhope you like it!

Happy Christian Dior Monday

Good morning, my friends!!
Shoot, this was a really fun weekend,
and now, on this Monday morning, I'm in need of some coffee!
My friends from the Band Eisley were in town this weekend,
which made for a great time.
They were touring with the band "Say Anything".
Saturday night, they performed at the House of Blues in San Diego,
and while we were in San Diego,
we ended up meeting up with Rumi (Fashiontoast) & her boy friend Colin for dinner.
It was great seeing them and catching up with them.
Last time my brother and I had hung out with them was in New York for Fashion Week.
Later that night, the whole Eisley crew came back to my house to crash.
Then yesterday, we were off to The Troubadour in Hollywood for their last concert of the tour.
It was really a good time catching up.
Forgive me for my posting absence last night!
This is why there wasn't one...

So i thought... why not make this morning a Merry Christian Dior Monday Morning! :)
This is painting 1 out of the 5 paintings of Paris Fashion Week i did for Sundance Channel's Full Fontal Fashion.
I hope you like it! and i hope your Monday is a good one...
now i need to go make some coffee! hah

Christian Dior Spring 2010 RTW.

Karlie Kloss (NEXT)

Double respect is due to John Galliano this season. First, it was he who entered the subject of lingerie at the top of fashion's agenda.

Abbey Lee (NEXT)

Back in July, he showed his tailoring-with-underwear Christian Dior couture collection, and since then swaths of designers have being going at it with the visible frillies.

Frida Gustavsson (IMG)

Second, for ready-to-wear, he seized his advantage, melding a soft, delightfully thought-out version of the idea into a show with a forties film noir theme.

Natasha Poly (WOMEN)

Galliano said he found the cinematic cue while thinking about Lauren Bacall. "She was a great Dior client; there are amazing photos of her in the salon with Bogart. It was that and Arletty in Hôtel du Nord," he said.

Sasha Pivovarova (IMG)

That central character—a provocative, smoldering femme fatale with a side-parted, over-one-eye hairdo and red lips—gave him free reign to script a wardrobe narrative.

Maryna Linchuk (VIVA)

It started with abbreviated wartime trenchcoats, flipped through silver lamé dresses, arrived at a sequence in which the heroine is seen in her scanties, and then followed her out to make a drop-dead entrance in some nightclub or other.

Caroline Trentini (MARILYN)

Galliano turned the skimpies—French lace-trimmed cami-knickers and satin teddies—into a contemporary version of this summer's shorts and playsuits, following through with a trousseau's worth of pretty boudoir baby dolls and tiny, fragile flowered chiffon dresses.

Kasia Struss (WOMEN)

Cleverly, the transparencies—such as a purple satin bra-and-knicker set, apparently seen through black tulle—were an illusion created by stretch, paneled underlayers, so that the pieces are actually slipped on in one.

Alla Kostromicheva (WOMEN)

Stocking tops seen through the sheer panels in a copper lamé dress, and bras and panties glimpsed under a semitransparent tiered blue gown, were actually shadows stitched into underslips.

Karmen Pedaru (NEXT)

By night, the glamour was amped up even further, as Galliano put his heroine into a flesh pink corset and a long draped mint green sequin-sprinkled skirt, a Chantilly-smothered basque and black ruffled skirt, and a vamp red satin gown.

Olga Sherer (NATHALIE)

For perhaps the first time, it meant that Galliano had captured the romantic essence of his Dior couture and made sense of it as fully resolved ready-to-wear. It'll be expensive, of course, but oh so seductive.

Viviane Orth (IMG)

Kim Noorda (VIVA)

Daria Strokous (WOMEN)

Iekeliene Stange (MARILYN)

Anna Selezneva (SILENT)

Kelli Lumi (MAJOR)

Michaela Kocianova (ELITE)

Yulia Kharlaponova (WOMEN)

R'el Dade (MARILYN)

Anna Kuchkina (NATHALIE)

Chanel Iman (VIVA)

Constance Jablonski (ELITE)

Diana Farkhullina (IMG)

Anja Rubik (NEXT)

Vlada Roslyakova (WOMEN)

Yana Karpova (ELITE)

Lindsay Ellingson (VIVA)

Maria Kashleva (NATHALIE)
Siri Tollerød (MARILYN)

Denisa Dvorakova (ELITE)

Iris Strubegger (WOMEN)

Magdalena Frackowiak (ELITE)

Lily Donaldson (IMG)

Heloise Guerin (WOMEN)

Toni Garrn (WOMEN)

Tanya Dziahileva (MARILYN)

Michelle Westgeest (CITY)

Liu Wen (MARILYN)

Laura Blokhina (VIVA)

Thana Kuhnen (NATHALIE)

Alexandra Tretter (ELITE)

Charlotte di Calypso (ELITE)

Heidi Mount (IMG)

Emma Maclaren (FORD)

Ksenia Kahnovich (IMG)

John Galliano