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Dior, Christian

Overview
Works: 194 works in 290 publications in 12 languages and 7,238 library holdings
Roles: Costume designer, Illustrator, Author of introduction, Artist, Collector, Bibliographic antecedent
Classifications: tt505.d5, 746.92092
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11 editions published between and 2004 in English and French and held by 427 libraries worldwide
Postwar Paris seemed at last to have its lights turned on again in February, 1947 when the mild-mannered, forty-two-year-old Christian Dior (1905-1957) presented his first collection to a Europe still cold, dark, hungry, and threatened with Soviet invasion. As his models came down the runway-their waists cinched, their busts neatly pointed above bone-stiffened bodices, their calf-length skirts full and flaring, their heads fetchingly coiffed in 'coolie' hats-they seemed to sweep the air clean of defeat and depression. Dior, born into a middle-class Norman family, had abandoned studies in political science first to study music and then to run an art gallery. When the latter failed he turned to his talent for fashion sketches and began selling to the Paris newspapers. In 1938 Dior joined the fashion house of Robert Piguet and in 1940 that of Lucien Lelong, where he worked until the cotton magnate Marcel Boussae staked him to his own house and the historic collection of 1947. Over the next decade Dior introduced such landmark features as mink stolls, two-strand pearl chokers, cart-wheel hats, barrel coats, the A-line and the chemise or sack dress. But it was his elegant silhouette and sculptured structures that influenced a generation of women and designers. Dior was the first French couture house to establish its own company on New York's Seventh Avenue and cater directly to the American market. This beautifully illustrated book brings alive a great adventure, a period of dazzling rebirth led by Christian Dior, the modest, unassuming genius. .
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7 editions published in in English and held by 313 libraries worldwide
Self-portrait of a noted artist in clothes design and his alter ego, a quiet philosopher.
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3 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 155 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published in in English and held by 144 libraries worldwide
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12 editions published between and 2008 in English and held by 139 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 137 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 2007 in English and held by 59 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 1994 in French and German and held by 40 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 36 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 1954 in French and English and held by 35 libraries worldwide
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5 editions published between and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 31 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in French and held by 16 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published in in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in French and held by 14 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published between and 1997 in 3 languages and held by 10 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in German and Undetermined and held by 6 libraries worldwide
 
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Alternative Names

controlled identity Christian Dior Firme

Christian Dior 1905-1957
Dior
Dior 1905-1957
クリスチャン・ディオール
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