Against this backdrop, Christian Dior launched his debut collection in 1947. The reception was rapturous, the lines considered green shoots. Snow and her peers had found the revolutionary they sought.

This week marks the 120th birthday of Christian Dior, the designer who changed the trajectory of post-war fashion. From The ...

The narrative is framed by the 1947 feud between two major fashion designers, Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, that’s rooted in their contrasting experiences surviving the Nazi occupation of ...

On February 12, 1947, a new couturier named Christian Dior presented his first show to the press. In an elegant salon on the Avenue Montaigne, a model sauntered out wearing a calf-grazing skirt ...