I like a lot of these bags. As long as a style appeals to me, I don’t mind or care how long it’s been around. Change for the sole sake of change often results in tacky looking modifications and quickly dates a piece. If the golden eggs make sufficient money for the brand, don’t kill or tamper with the goose. Adding new geese to the gaggle is different.

    Excuse me while I echo the sentiments about the Dior Spring 2012 collection that have already been expressed by everyone else in the fashion industry: It’s kind of a placeholder, yes? Months have passed and Dior still doesn’t have a replacement for John Galliano, so the collection is being designed by what the French call “le studio.” Bill Gaytten, long Galliano’s right-hand man, has taken the reins, along with the rest of the Dior creative team.

  The clothes and handbags that they created are serviceable, but not surprising or innovative. The purses are all shapes that we’ve seen before from Dior, but in varied fabrications and colors, much like the clothes were. Dior seems set on making pieces that will retail reasonably well until LVMH can find a real creative voice to lead the brand, and the intention is written all over this collection.