Color used in Collection

Theme - Valley of the Dolls
John Galliano used "Valley of the Dolls" as the theme of this collection, brought fashion elements in Sixties to the designs.. Like Mary Quant's styles - shape colors, mini skirts, Twiggy's gigantic eyes make up....

There are 3 shape main hues in this collection- Bright violet, Shinny lake blue and orange. This color combination are using Trial scheme (three colors equally spaced with each others on the color wheel)
Besides, to make the outfits more interesting and variable, designer tried to add in different minor colors like pink to the collections, matching the major colors.

The Theme
Christian Dior's Fall 2006 RTW collection is inspired by French revolution in 1789-1799, mixing with Metallic and Rock and roll music.

The main color of this collection is bloody red. This is how designer present the image of violent and trigical "Wars" in French revolution.
So how the designer present the story? First, there are very little light grayish green and white at the outfits at beginning, represent peace and pure, which act as a contrast to the violent Bloody red at the later part of the collection. (Green and Red are complementary matching).
Moreover, all these colors are applied on shiny fabrics, to present the feeling of Metallic Music.

Although the whole collection is using complementary colors, in each outfits, he used the principle of resemblance to maintain harmony matching of colors.
***major color: Deep reddish brown. John Galliano used different materials to present the same color, to made it look different. Like this outfit - the fur, the leather, the lighter knitted blouses....reflects light in different degree.