Dior's 'New Look'

Fashion writers are calling it the best collection in years from John Galliano, design heir to the House of Dior. Cher called it "fantastic." We call it seriously weird stuff that no woman in her right mind would wear. Well, Cher maybe. Keep clicking for highlights of Dior's Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Haute Couture collection.

Let's get a close-up of that look. A model wears a creation in Dior's Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Haute Couture collection, presented July 5, 2006, in Paris.

Celebrity Sighting No. 1: Cher watches the Fall/Winter 2006-07 Haute Couture collection by John Galliano for Christian Dior, July 5, 2006, in Paris. "I thought it was fantastic," she told The Telegraph. "My first Dior, and I'd wear it all in a heartbeat."

Cher probably would wear this. A model wears an outfit by British fashion designer John Galliano for Dior's Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris, July 5, 2006.

According to a British fashion writer for The Telegraph, Galliano's theme was "armour and the Italian renaissance, hence the warlike constructions fashioned from bin liners, silver foil and mountains of fake hair, then surmounted with flags, pennants and golden trumpets, inspired by the ancient art of jousting."

Galliano says his collection was inspired by a late-night viewing of the 1942 film "Les Visiteurs du Soir." The film is a fantasy, set in the 15th century, about two minstrels sent by the Devil to tempt desperate people. Looking pretty glum about it, a model wears a Galliano creation for Dior's Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Haute Couture show in Paris, July 5, 2006.

A model wears an outfit by British fashion designer John Galliano for Dior's Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Haute Couture fashion collection presented in Paris, July 5, 2006.

Celebrity Sighting No. 2: Drew Barrymore arrives for the Fall/Winter 2006-07 Haute Couture collection show by John Galliano for Christian Dior, July 5, 2006, in Paris.

Never insult the style sense of a person wearing a chain-mail glove. A model wears a creation by designer John Galliano for Dior's Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris on July 5, 2006.

Can't think of a single place to wear this: A model wears a creation by British fashion designer John Galliano for Dior's Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris, July 5, 2006.

Can't think of a single place to wear this without getting arrested: A model wears a transparent dress by British fashion designer John Galliano for Dior's Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris, July 5, 2006.

Does this look almost good, or is it just better than the rest of the show? A model wears a short dress by John Galliano for Christian Dior during the Fall/Winter 2006-07 Haute Couture collections, July 5, 2006 in Paris.

The theme here might be Marie Antoinette in Hell. A model shows a gown by John Galliano for Christian Dior during the Fall/Winter 2006-07 Haute Couture collections, July 5, 2006, in Paris.

A model wears a creation by British designer John Galliano for Christian Dior for the Fall/Winter 2006-07 Haute Couture collections on July 5, 2006, in Paris.

A model wears an outfit by British designer John Galliano for Christian Dior during the Fall/Winter 2006-07 Haute Couture collections, July 5, 2006 in Paris.

If the theme is Renaissance, this must be the court jester. A model wears a creation by British fashion designer John Galliano for Dior's Fall-Winter 2006-2007 Haute Couture fashion collection in Paris, July 5, 2006.

Great, he does menswear too. A model presents a creation by British designer John Galliano for his men's Spring-Summer 2007 fashion collection shown in Paris on June 30, 2006.

Models present creations by British designer John Galliano as part of his men's Spring-Summer 2007 fashion collection in Paris, June 30, 2006.

And here's the man responsible for Dior's New Look. British designer John Galliano appears in a spacesuit at the end of the Dior Fall/Winter 2006-07 Haute Couture collections, July 5, 2006, in Paris.

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