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1905–1957 France
Christian Dior (21 January 1905 – 23 October 1957) was a French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses, also called Christian Dior, but now owned by LVMH.
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A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
It is unforgivable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.
The rich live the same all over the world.
Bright reds – scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry – are very cheerful and youthful.
I'm a mild man, but I have violent tastes.
I think I would be more suited to the couture side of the business!
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.
You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe.
Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
My dream is to save women from nature.
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.
My mother whom I adored, secretly wasted away and died of grief…; her death…marked me for life.
If my poor maman had still been alive, I would never have tried
We went from losses to goods seized by creditors, while continuing to organize surrealist or abstract exhibitions…
Many people dismiss haute couture as being something that is only for those who are very wealthy... simplicity, good taste, and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.
Alison Behnke (2012)
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