Christian Dior's recent couture show delights the sensual senses as models walk on a purple stage

Photo by Content Editor Lucia Carpio at Mayfield Lavender field in Banstead, Surrey, UK..

Christian Dior's latest haute couture catwalk show "The Garden of Earthly Delights" set inside the Rodin Museum in Paris was a big hit among the fashion press. The setting was a huge, abstract painted cube of perspex of a conservatory garden that featured myriad multicolored panels — and some even tripped on the giant colored fruit scattered around the floor.

MFFashion.com names it "the best of show". (To view video of show, click here.)

The Guardian newspaper in London referred to it as "both a celebration of beauty and a commentary on the fashion industry's commodification of beauty.  According to Creatove Director Raf Simons. the fashion collection, based on a Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch's painting had little to do with flowers, though models paraded the Autumn-Winnter 2015-16 collection during Paris Fashion Week on a purple catwalk, as if walking in a field of purple-coloured flowers.

As reported in The Guardian, Simons explained: “I was intrigued by the idea of forbidden fruit,
and what that meant now. The idea of purity and innocence versus luxury and decadence and
how that is encapsulated by the idea of Dior’s garden.” This garden, he went on to say, is “no longer a flower garden but a sexual one”.

The feminine collection had a Midieval feel to it, featuring rich and luxurious fabrics ranging from crepe silks to taffetas and velvets with a touch of fur.

Content Editor Lucia Carpio enjoying a personal experiece of a garden of earthly delights at
the Mayfield Lavender farm in Surrey, UK.

On a more personal note, our content editor Lucia Carpio recently visited the Mayfield Lavender farm in Banstead, Surrey, and experienced her own "purple" moment while walking among rows and rows of lavender.  "Intoxicated by the sweet scent and serenaded by the buzzing bees, I enjoyed this tremendous garden of earthly delights on a different level," she said.