Look 36, a short black minidress with ruffles on the shoulder, was a kind of coda for the collection. It harked back to the ...

The rest is modern fashion history as we know it. Christian Dior's most famous ... of the Avenue Montaigne studio, Mr. Dior selects his sketches with Mme. Marguerite, Mme. Raymonde, and Mme.

PARIS, July 19 — To one of the “ New Look” generation, whose introduction to fashion was in 1947, “Christian Dior ... Montaigne studio, Mr. Dior selects his sketches with Mme.

On February 12, 1947, a new couturier named Christian Dior presented his first show to ... when French businessman Bernard Arnault bought the fashion house, it remained a sleeping beauty until ...