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Dior Homme is the menswear division of Christian Dior SA, the French clothing retailer. Dior Homme has been under Hedi Slimane's creative direction since the fall/winter 2001-02 season; under his direction, Dior Homme has introduced a characteristic slim-fit which has since taken off within the fashion industry. The early collections delved into the exploration of the male sex. The look darkened during the Luster period which was inspired by the electroscene of Berlin. Since 2004 A/W, Dior Homme has delved into exploring the different styles of Rock. A popular rumor is that Karl Lagerfeld lost about 90 pounds so he would fit into one of Slimanes suits. During the 80s and 90s Dior's menswear line was called Dior Monsieur. Nowadays, Dior Homme is worn by many different people from your average skinny guy to the biggest celebrities. Brad pitt, Mick Jagger, and David Beckham have all been spotted wearing the clothes. Dior homme is fairly difficult to acquire. There are only 3 independant stores in the US, while the rest of the products must be purchased at department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue. Due to quarelling over Slimane doing a womens line at Dior, his contract was not renewed. Dior has hired Kris Van Assche, who has already completed the Spring/Summer 2008 show. Many items from past seasons are very collectible. A few of these items include the blood wound shirt, the d point belt, and a few pairs of jeans from 'Strip'.

Older fans generally consider the quality of the line to have fallen significantly during the last few years. This is primarily due to a much larger production scale and Hedi Slimane's dwindling influence on the actual design.

Dior Homme:

• Autumn/Winter 2001/02 "Solitaire"
• Spring/Summer 2002 "Boys Don't Cry"/"RED"
• Autumn/Winter 2002/03 "Reflection"
• Spring/Summer 2003 "Follow Me"
• Autumn/Winter 2003/04 "Luster"
• Spring/Summer 2004 "Strip"
• Autumn/Winter 2004/05 "Victim of the Crime"
• Spring/Summer 2005 (Dubbed "Beck", yet no official name given.)
• Autumn/Winter 2005/06 "Everybody Just Looks The Same"
• Spring/Summer 2006 "The world was a mess, but his hair was perfect"
• Autumn/Winter 2006/07 "These Grey Days"
• Spring/Summer 2007 "We Looked Good Together"
• Autumn/Winter 2007/08 "Navigate"
• Spring/Summer 2008 (under new head Kris van Assche)

When dealing and trading Dior Homme, the reference code is often used to place the item within the season it was produced. Here we decipher a typical/standard code: 5EH1015678 E47 B6A8 (SS'05 blue glitter jeans).

'5' refers to the year, that is, 2005.

'EH' refers to the season, that is, Eté (Summer). HH refers to 'Hiver' (Winter).

'101' refers to the item group, in this case, trousers (Pantalon). Other examples: 102 refers to blazers (Veste), 105 to shirts (Chemise) and so forth.

The next 4 numbers '5678' should refer to the specific item, with jeans it will reveal the type of cut as the entire 16 digit reference code will only differ by the first 2 digits in this set of 4 numbers for the differing cut. As noted earlier, the # for this item is 5EH1015678 E47 B6A8, referring to the 21cm cut. The # for the 19cm variant is 5EH1011678 E47 B6A8.

There isn't total agreement on the next three digits, 'E47', but they could possibly tell which materials was used.

The last 4, 'B6A8', is the colour code. In this particular case, 'B' refers to Bleu (blue), as in indigo blue, the main colour of the jean. 'A' refers to Argent (silver), the colour of the glitter. Another example would be B6N0 - the colour code for the SS'03 released classic blue distressed clawmark jeans painted over in matte black paint. The B6 again refers to the base colour bleu whilst the N0 refers to the black paint ('N' for Noir - black).

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