

YOU SHOULD SEE: The latest in the Galliano story. YOU SHOULD SEE: The latest Dior Couture collection, following Galliano's departure. YOU SHOULD SEE: Gisele Bundchen's style evolution. The 240-page book, with a foreword by artist jeff Koons, will retail for £70 in the UK when it is released in November and is published by Rizzoli. "With Dior Haute Couture, the dream is already there." "When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream," Patrick Demarchelier said. With pieces from the first collection by Dior himself in 1947, through creations by successors Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan and John Galliano, the timeless quality and glamorous aesthetic is captured by Demarchelier in locations including Shanghai Times Square, New York the grand staircase of the Paris Opera House and the garden of the Musée Rodin. ***Updated Thursday October 27, 9.12am: *** Photographer Patrick Demarchelier has enlisted some of the world's most beautiful women - from Gisele Bundchen and Charlize Theron, to Karlie Kloss and Sasha Pivovarova - to model Christian Dior Haute Couture's most stunning creations for a new book entitled Dior Couture Patrick Demarchelier. That's why I chose such a wide range of models - the book is made by so many different things different places, different make-up artists, different models."Ĭlick back on our Online Fashion Week blog after 4.44pm today to read Demarchelier's career advice. I wanted to put couture in interesting situations and set different moods for each picture. We shot the book in so many different places - New York, London and Paris. "Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house," he said. Talking at the signing of his new book - Dior Couture - at the label's Bond Street store last night, Demarchelier spent a year taking pictures of stars - from Gisele to Charlize Theron - in making the tome. "It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. "Beauty is in the character of a person," he told us.

Updated Tuesday December 6, 9.53am: Patrick Demarchelier may have taken pictures of the world's most beautiful women, but he says you don't have to look like Gisele to be photogenic.
