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Christian Ernest Dior (French: [kʁistjɑ̃ djɔʁ]; 21 January 1905 – 24 October 1957) was a French fashion designer and founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, Christian Dior SE. His fashion house is known all around the world, having gained prominence "on five continents in only a decade."
At the age of 21, Yves Saint Laurent was officially designated to succeed Christian Dior, who had died on October 24, as the head designer of Dior. [ 117 ] 1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash : A flying boat crash on the Isle of Wight left 45 people dead.
The production of Dior Haute Couture was spun off into a subsidiary named Christian Dior Couture in 1995. [10] Also, the "La Parisienne" watch model was released – embodied in the watch "Parisian Chic". By that year, revenue for the label rose to USD 177 million, with a net income of USD 26.9 million. [11]
“I mentioned to him that I was researching Christian Dior and told him 40 minutes of stories about Dior,” recalled Kessler, who went on to write, direct and produce the series. “He said ...
When Christian Dior died in 1957, Cardin was one of a number of young designers mentioned by the fashion press as possible successors to Dior's enormous position in the fashion world. [17] As haute couture began to decline, ready-to-wear ('prêt-à-porter') soared as well as Cardin's designs.
On the day of his death, in 1972, Women's Wear Daily ran the headline "The King is Dead". Since 2011 the purpose-built Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum has exhibited examples of his work in his birth town Getaria. Many of the 1,200 pieces in the collection were supplied by his pupil Hubert de Givenchy and clients such as Grace Kelly.
Alla Ilchun (10 December 1926 – 6 March 1989) was a Chinese-born Kazakh-Russian fashion model who lived in France.A muse for Christian Dior, who referred to her as "his personal talisman", she was the first prominent Asian woman to model European fashions.
She was born to a family of aesthetes, like her father Jacques Bonjean, who collected art from 17-century France, her mother Germaine (born Lipman) Bonjean, [3] and her godfather Christian Dior. At the age of six, her godfather was poor and played the piano with Page's mother, and he even talked to Page about talking to adults.