France
Christian Dior
said
My dream is to save women from nature.
— In: Newsweek, Vol. 50, Nr 19-26, (1957), p. 44
Christian Dior
French fashion designer (1905–1957)
- Fame64.4
- Momentum10.0
- France rank#176
Source-basedFalling
- Fame64.4
- Momentum10.0
- France rank#176
- Business Professionals rank#92
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Lived 1905–1957, aged 52France
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He gave postwar Paris a new silhouette — rounded shoulders, nipped waist, skirts that swallowed fabric and revived an industry still in rationing. The "New Look" landed in 1947 like a provocation, and within a decade his name was on five continents.
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Christian Ernest Dior was born 21 January 1905 in France. During World War II, his skills kept him employed designing for fashion icons while the industry fought to survive. After the war he founded his own house and in 1947 debuted the collection that changed everything: the "New Look," with its rounded shoulders, cinched waist, and very full skirt — a return to opulence and ultra-femininity that split opinion and won. Within ten years, Christian Dior SE had gained prominence on five continents. He died 24 October 1957, but the awards for costume design kept coming long after.
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Christian Dior
said
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
— Quoted in Ladies' Home Journal, April 1956
Christian Dior
said
I know very well the women. The short skirt was never a good fashion — very vulgar. The American women will accept the new fashions. You can never stop the fashions.
— In: Malcolm Perrine McNair, Harry L. Hansen (1949) Problems in Marketing. p. 165
Christian Dior
said
I'm a mild man, but I have violent tastes.
— In: "Dior," in LIFE, Vol. 24, nr. 9 (1 March 1948), p. 48
Christian Dior
said
It is unforgivable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.
— Christian Dior The opulence of the groundbreaking “New Look” collection of 1947. p. 36, as cited in: Judith Miller (2008). Costume
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