

Balenciaga, fall/winter 1999
Vogue, 1951. Photo by John Rawlings.
Erin O’Connor and a Chinese circus performer on the runway of Christian Dior Spring 2003 Haute Couture show.
It was Asia, but not as we know it. Recently returned from a three-week trip to China and Japan, John Galliano staged a Christian Dior couture show that smashed cultural boundaries in a spectacle of gargantuan theatricality. Sweeping, multicolored volumes of fabric that mixed East and West, ancient and modern, were showcased amid appearances from Chinese dancers and circus performers, who flew along the runway in death-defying feats of athleticism. [style.com]
Vogue, 1951. Photo by John Rawlings.
Abbey Lee Kershaw by David Benjamin Sherry for iD January 2009
Comme des Garçons tribute | Ling Ling Kong by Mark O’sullivan for Under The Influence #9