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...Launched in 1947, Christian Dior’s “New Look” collection was hailed as clothing for a postwar era and a modern, iconoclastic rejection of the prevailing styles of the past....
...He created bags, a logo, he made a big step for a couture house like Dior, which was so classic.”...
...The Christian Dior Haute Couture gown Jennifer Lawrence wore to the 2013 Academy Awards, where she won an Oscar for the Best Actress category, was said to have cost £3mn....
...The scandal traces back to December last year, when a liberal YouTube channel revealed Kim Keon Hee, the wife of conservative South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, had received a Christian Dior bag worth...
...She also referenced Christian Dior’s La Cigale dress for autumn-winter 1952, which had quite a severe sculpted construction in heavy moire silk....
...He had already been suspended by the French couture house a few days earlier, following a separate incident in which two people accused him of making racist remarks....
...In Apple TV+ series The New Look, Christian Dior is flatteringly depicted by Ben Mendelsohn, while Juliette Binoche plays Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, a designer whose self-image became her key selling point...
...Introduced in 1934, it was inspired by couture innovations of the time – a gold mesh bracelet designed as if a belt, with a buckle-like clasp. By the 1940s, that bracelet had become a watch....
...Bringing together themes and inspirations from her past collections – the gardens of Versailles, Christian Dior’s historic home Milly-la-Forêt, couture fabrics and finesse – it was something of a retrospective...
...But his image as a graft-buster was badly undermined by a scandal surrounding his wife, first lady Kim Keon Hee, over her acceptance of a Christian Dior bag worth about Won3mn ($2,200) from a Korean-American...
...Feldspar Stripe collection of plates, bowls, mugs, teapots and a butter dish, from £35 Dior Maison The cerisiers First created for Dior’s Jardin Japonais dress in 1953, and later brought back to life by...
...Pendant watches have been popular for a few years now, with Dior reimagining its Gem Dior collection as necklaces, Piaget reviving its heritage in the genre, and Jaeger-LeCoultre introducing an opulent version...
...Red lips were “bitten” at Dior, a deep wine at Carolina Herrera, dark and chic at Saint Laurent, matte-black at Comme des Garçons and – a real highlight – polished-black at Burberry....
...When Christian Dior debuted vast spreading skirts in a still ration-stricken Paris with his New Look of 1947, working-class women were so infuriated by its symbolism of luxurious waste that a mob literally...
...Meanwhile, Kim Jones has launched another collaboration with British artist Peter Doig, for Dior’s Men’s Ski 2024....
...in part via acquisitions of brands such as Balenciaga, Saint Laurent and Christian Dior....
...For Raf Simons’ debut couture show at Christian Dior in 2012, Colle created a spectacular wall of 17,000 carnation stems....
...Christian Dior: Its shares were up more than 9 per cent after it reported record results for 2023, joining a rally in the luxury sector that also includes LVMH and Pernod Ricard....
...He stepped back from his role as chief executive of menswear label Berluti recently, taking over management of family holding company Christian Dior SE in December....
...“Bottega Veneta showcased a collection that was masterfully woven and sculpted, nearly reaching couture levels,” says Mytheresa chief buying officer Tiffany Hsu....
...We learn how Simons’ affinity for contemporary art helped him forge a connection to Christian Dior, and produce some of the most compelling and technically accomplished haute couture of the 2010s....
...To differentiate from pretty much every other menswear house out there, Jones also debuted 20 haute couture looks for men — aimed at Dior’s beyond-VIP clients with six figures set to spend on embroidered...
...its centenary last December — to explore the darkest chapter of Dior’s own history: the death in 1957 of its eponymous founder, Christian Dior....
...Delphine, the 48-year-old chief executive of Christian Dior, and Antoine, the 46-year-old head of image and communications for the group, took their seats at roughly the same age....
...“I got sent to all these amazing fashion shows like Christian Dior, Givenchy, Balenciaga,” she says over a video call from her adopted home of Miami. “I was bored stiff....
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