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On 12 February 1947, Christian Dior, aged 42, presented his first collection at 30 Avenue Montaigne, which was strewn with flowers by Lachaume. The Editor-in-Chief of Harper's Bazaar, Carmel Snow, strongly believed in the couturier's talent, which she had already noted in 1937 with the Café Anglais model that he designed for Robert Piguet.
The couturier Christian Dior created a tidal wave with his first collection in February 1947. The collection contained dresses with accentuated busts, tiny (or "wasp") waists, and extravagantly full skirts, emphasizing the feminine hourglass figure in a manner very similar to the style of the Belle Époque.
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."
“The New Look" on Apple TV+ focuses on the lives of Christian Dior and Coco Chanel and offers an unflinching look at the decisions and moral compromises they made to survive during the Nazi ...
On 12 February 1947, Christian Dior launched his first fashion collection for Spring–Summer 1947. The show of "90 models of his first collection on six mannequins" was presented in the salons of the company's headquarters at 30 Avenue Montaigne. [10] Originally, the two lines were named "Corolle" and "Huit". [10]
The New Look (style), a fashion style created by Christian Dior in 1947; The New Look (album), a 1966 album by Fontella Bass; The New Look (policy), an American defense policy instituted during the Eisenhower administration; The New Look (TV series), an American biographical drama television series
Miss Dior dates to 1947, shortly after the Christian Dior fashion line debuted its acclaimed New Look collection. [1] The fragrance's name was a tribute to the designer's sister, French resistance fighter Catherine Dior , familiarly known as Miss Dior. [ 2 ]
The following year, British designer Molyneux also eliminated shoulder pads, [25] part of a prophetic trend in high fashion that would be carried further by Balenciaga in 1945 [26] and culminate in Dior's slope-shouldered 1947 Corolle collection. [27] [28]