Quotable: What Raf’s revealing about his approach at Dior

Much has been said of what Raf Simons will do for the house of Dior, now that he’s landed the big gig, but how does he feel about it? Whilst we were all taking dibs on which of his many modern approaches he may take with the house, he revealed quite the opposite to The New York Times:

“My aim is a very modern Dior, but at the end of the day, I also look back […] I find that period between 1947 and 1957 extremely attractive, and there was a lot of modernity. There was the romantic appeal looking back to his mother and the belle époque, but there was also a constant evolution in shape, changing proportions and the ideas connected to the World War were revolutionary.”