>"Christian Dior’s haute couture collection for the Spring/Summer 1992 season was not genre-defining per se. Named In Balmy Summer Breezes, it was “a very feminine collection, for a Parisian woman feeling the Parisian breeze, its colors and its flowers,” as the creative director Gianfranco Ferré told the Italian press. Florals for spring? I know, I know. Yet, among the suits, wide-brimmed hats, and cocktail dresses in floral hues (from lavender to sunset colors) was an evening gown in chiffon modeled after a Greek pillar, the “Palladium” dress. Its off-the-shoulder sleeves mirror the pillar’s volutes; the empire-waisted bodice reprises the egg-and-dart motif of the capital; the gown itself is a pleated sheath."