Christian Dior walked this morning in Paris. Following his fall 2009 Dior Couture show, in which models strutted the runway in just slips and bras, John Galliano remains, like his peers, in a lingerie state of mind.

Galliano said he had originally been inspired by archive photographs of Bacall and Bogart, in the front row at Christian Dior shows. “She was a regular client of M.Dior and I loved the idea of taking that 1940s Hollywood glamour and making it more contemporary. And I liked the idea of the link between film as an illusion and the illusion of undressed dresses.”  The front-row line-up included the Hollywood actor, Bruce Willis, and his new wife, Emma Heming, who was wearing a black-and-white, tailored Dior suit; the singer Rihanna; and the burlesque star, Dita Von Teese “I’d like to see Emma in some of those dresses,” Willis said, after the show. The show was staged against a ‘film noir’ backdrop of a derelict warehouse, suffused with shadowy light and dry ice. There was the sound of heavy breathing, a telephone ringing, a hoarse cry, a gun-shot and then screams. Murder on the dance floor? No, drama on the Dior catwalk.

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