The name Christian Dior for every woman who is not indifferent to fashion, brings something different. For some, this New Look with a wasp waist and bell skirt, for others a bottle of perfume "Poison". Whatever it was, Dior - is a universe that keeps their lives for many years after its founder died. Christian Dior is a favorite brand of celebrities who choose their outfits for social events of international importance, and those who can not afford to pay, "Dior" buy the iconic «Poison». But parents couturiers were categorically opposed to their son contacted Bohemia.

Life

Christian Dior was born in 1905 in Granville, in northern France, in a very wealthy family. Mother and father have paid a lot of time educating his son and wants to see his diplomat. But from an early age, Christian lost in creativity and dreamed of becoming an architect. He enjoyed drawing, architecture is fully occupied all his thoughts, he then constantly expressed in their collections, in which it is impossible not to notice this love. The parents dissuaded him from this activity, he first listened to and studied politics, but soon returned to his room and went their own way, following a dream.

In 1928, Dior another Jacques Bonzhakom opened an art gallery with an exhibition of paintings of the great masters, but the business failed. Ten years later, life brought him to a fashion designer Robert Piguet, but only after serving in the Army in 1941, Dior began a full career in the Parisian fashion house of Lucien Lelong. A year later he opened his perfume industry, but as a designer famous only after five years.

New Look

In 1946, thanks to a third-party funding in Paris opened a fashion house Christian Dior. Next 1947 rightly be called a turning not only for Dior, but for the whole fashion world. It was he who made a revolution, forcing to reconsider the established forms of the female silhouette. Dior helped his youthful enthusiasm for architecture, which he successfully applied in his debut collection. Thus was born the new look - a style that was not just a new one. With his appearance fashion story started a new countdown.

Draperies, flowing skirts, slinky silhouettes were left in the past. The canons of Haute Couture, with its complex forms and pretentiousness, seemed to scold. Dior ladies cinched waist, making it a wasp, offered stiff skirt shape in the form of bells to the ankles. Corset style (which, of course, there was a lot of opponents) raised chest and emerges a perfect figure Create perfect figure   "hourglass". Images of the new look were supplemented by wide-brimmed hat with a rigid frame forms, but with sleek lines.

The dresses Dior women who have not had time to recover from the hardships of the Second World War, felt goddesses. The debut collection of Dior also included tight skirts, close-fitting jackets with buttons - all this, in spite of its apparent simplicity and plainness captured the hearts of Parisians. They do not think that Christian Dior fashion returns the nineteenth century, with its lush skirts and corsets. It was a new interpretation of the female image that is well blended into the evolution of the global fashion industry.

The dizzying success designer debutant serve him well, making a decent reputation. Dior began creating costumes for the theater, his dresses and suits can be seen in the movies of the fifties. Style Christian Dior has become a symbol of femininity, elegance, luxury and good taste that had not so often connected in one name. In 1948, the release of this brand of clothing has been launched already in several major cities around the world, innovative style of Dior has been successfully adopted in the Old and the New World. In 1950, Christian Dior was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor.

Since the advent of new look to his departure from the life of Christian Dior success to work only ten years old. All these years he worked fruitfully, unveiled two collections each year. His designs always reflected his childhood dreams, desires and passions. It was not only the architecture, Dior fantasized endlessly on the flower theme, surprising the audience with original masterpieces, which intertwined fashion and theater. He did not tolerate parochial in fashion, he opposed the dullness and ordinary style.

The legacy of the master

Couturier could see the young talents who, in his opinion, could bring innovative solutions to the current fashion. In 1955, he hired a young Yves Saint Laurent, who two years later, after the sudden death of the master, stood at the head of his house.

Dior said about his work: "Dresses - this is my dream, but I have to tame them, and they leave the realm of dreams, are things that can be put on and wear. Fashion lives its own life, its own laws, which are beyond the laws of another. " It is said that Christian Dior turned the fashion world quite by accident, and he did not deny. Critics have argued that the new look suddenly became popular because Dior guessed desire of women. Couturier himself admitted that nothing ever proschityval. He just followed his dream, the execution of which has brought joy not only to him but to all women of the world.

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