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  In 1947, named CHRISTIAN DIOR his debut couture collection "Corolle Line," a term borrowed from botany to

describe the petals of a flower towers. Raf Simons suit when he took over the legendary French fashion house

presenting his first haute couture collection last year in the summer for the brand to a villa in Paris,

with between about one million flowers of 22 different species covered wall. "The way I see flowers on Dior,

as you see black compared to Yohji Yamamoto," Simons said on the phone from his car one evening, traveling

from his home in Antwerp to Paris, after a long weekend of Easter . "It's complete DNA Dior use of flowers."

The flowers are DNA-Simons also. During the first collections of the brand for its eponymous clothing brand

for men was more than techno tulips (a reaction to her childhood in the Belgian countryside with a mother

who was "obsessed with Flowers"), has learned the designer recently, his pastoral roots first director of

Jil Sander and Dior embrace now. "I think it's almost harder to be inspired by things that are very

universal," he said.

When it comes to creating arrangements for his shows, is the secret weapon of Simon's 34 years, based in

Antwerp florist Mark Colle. "I would never do anything with flowers, if not with Mark, mainly because I

think his hand is unique," says Simons. Without showing him one of his first show clothes sewing a

futuristic romantic collection with allusions to classic Dior Bar Jacket named as Simon Colle in Paris to

prepare arrangements for the walls around the track. The florist chose varieties he thought would resonate

with both the story (red roses) and modern aesthetics (blue delphinium and gold) of designer Dior.

The participation of the glue flowers largely by accident. He left school at 15 and worked in flower shops

to make money. Driven by an obsession with kitsch filmmaker John Waters, he moved to the director hometown

Baltimore, Maryland, in his early twenties and continued to work as a florist, Waters finally meet. "I'm

sure that's where my love for kitschy flowers" ugly "is why I flowers that do not like and most people try,

they really turn into something pretty to use," said Colle sur flowers such as carnations and cymbidium

orchids. Later, when he opened his own shop in Antwerp, he became the Baltimore Bloemen.

It was the window of the store, take weeks Paste to create the first caught the attention of Simon can. "It

would be foam gardens together," said Simon recalls, "and completely build worlds with people and

buildings." Simon's first rope glue out of fashion when she was hired to design the stunning and lavish

bouquets, locked plexiglass cube that flanks the track on his last Jil Sander in Milan in February 2012.

Since this crucial show, the interests of Simons flowers proved to be an indicator in the world of fashion.

This year, a crisp naturalism decided many Haute Couture Spring with designers opting for lush instead of

austerity measures that defined the early years of the financial crisis romance. "Do you know a designer who

has no source of floral inspiration in their work," asks Eric Chauvin, a favorite florist customers of

fashion in Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine. Chauvin works regularly brands such as Dior, and helped glue, with a

team of 50 others to the wall mount floral famous now.

Another florists high fashion, Rambert Rigaud, has 17 years as a workshop director at Dior and Yves Saint

Laurent before he put aside his career as a fashion to open his own store exclusive flowers, Rambert Rigaud

Florist Grass, opposite the Jardin des Tuileries in this year. One of his first assignments was to create

arrangements for the re-opening of the Valentino boutique on Avenue Montaigne. Lessons learned Rigaud trendy

informs his work as a florist. "The flowers you throw them away," he said. "We have to start from scratch

every week, the same way., You have to start all over again."

"Of all the fashion designers I know, not one of them does not like flowers," Rigaud, who runs a flower

garden in Normandy, when Christian Dior once-in the house he. Starring Nina Ricci designer Peter Copping

said "Raf is actually the first, brought the flowers."