Dior’s famous 1947 “New Look,” celebrated in this series as representing a life-affirming embrace of beauty after the ugliness of war, was distinguished by its extravagant exaggeration of ...

With these words in 1947, Carmel Snow ... She was speaking to Christian Dior after his debut fashion show in Paris. The New Look – a lavish repudiation of wartime pragmatism – went on to ...

In 1946, when Christian Dior saw the four-storey hôtel particulier at 30 Avenue Montaigne, built in the 1860s for a son of Napoleon, he knew he had to have it for his new fashion house ... restored to ...

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

Christian Dior is one of the most esteemed names in the world of luxury fashion. Founded on 16 December 1946 by the eponymous haute-couturier, from the very off the name Dior has been synonymous ...