Blooming Marvelous

There were a lot of flowers in Paris for couture this season. We were told it took 1 million of them to cover the walls of the Dior venue entirely - mainly orchids,roses,delphiniums and mimosa. It was an extravagant gesture even for a house happy to indulge its designers, as it famously did with the previous incumbent, John Galliano.
All eyes were on his successor Raf Simons. Could he be the man to take fashion's most luxurious art form into the 21st century. Let us see what his debut collection for Dior had to offer.