Classic Fashions Of Christian Dior

Illustrations of designs by Christian Dior on card stock, in paper-doll format; biographical information about Dior on endpapers.

A study of Christian Dior as an artist, focusing on his achievements through his works rather than through biography.

As a modeller of women and leader of fashion, suggesting that the designers of the day required great creative talent to outgrow the then current stereotype of woman and truly advance the bounds of fashion.

The name Christian Dior has been synonymous with fashion and glamour for over0 years. From the moment Christian Dior and Marcel Boussac decided to foundhe couture house of Dior, the clothing that they have produced has beenegarded as stylish and elegant. Not only was the house of Dior recognizedor its revolutionary designs, but it was also the first fashion house toealize the commercial potential that a sought-after label could have. In949 they signed the first of many licence agreements for Christian Diorosiery in the USA.;This publication traces the history of the most famousashion house in the world, from its conception in 1946 to the modern erahere it continues to flourish in the cut-throat world of the fashionusiness. Essays by leading figures in the world of fashion, combined withrchive photography offer an insight into the soul of the company.

At once Dior scrapbook, survey and autobiography, this magnificent compendium offers a panorama of the life and art of one of the twentieth century's most influential fashion designers. It reprints Dior's 1956 autobiography Christian Dior et moi--in which the designer contrasted his reputation as both an individual and as a company with his own sense of himself--alongside eight articles by Dior first published in Elle magazine in 1951, which were then collected as Je suis couturier. Throughout, the volume takes as its thematic anchor the designer's beautiful childhood home in Granville, elaborating his lifelong attachment to the house (now the Christian Dior Museum) and its gardens, and showing how his work was influenced by these resplendent environs--a theme that especially preoccupied Dior himself, who once affirmed his "tender and wonderful memories of my childhood home," declaring that "my life and my style owe everything to its location and architecture." Many of the copious illustrations that accompany these writings are supplied by the Christian Dior Museum collection, and reproduce family albums and archival photographs, fashion sketches and formal presentations of classic Dior dresses, hats, shoes and jewelry. Dior scholar Jean-Luc Dufresne conducts a tour of the Dior house and garden, narrating its long and fascinating history.

Self-portrait of a noted artist in clothes design and his alter ego, a quiet philosopher.

Boussac offered to set up Dior in business, a lease came due on 30 Avenue Montaigne - still the Dior headquarters - and the young designer consulted his mystic. She fell into a trance and cried out "It will be extraordinary. Your house will revolutionize fashion".".