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n item in my eBay account’s ‘didn’t win’ list has been a thorn in my side for
several weeks now. The thumbnail of a bright red 60’s Dior shift, nestled smugly between other less-notewor thy escapees, has served as a gutting reminder of a Tuesday lunchtime bidding war that left me, pathetic as it sounds, a little hear tbroken. Yes, there are more impor tant things in life, and there’s no guarantee the blasted thing would even have f it, but my desire to own this piece of Dior history was bizarrely overwhelming. It was the designs of a rather unassuming- looking Frenchman from Normandy who dominated post-war fashions in the 40s and 50s, cleverly expanding his couture collections to suit the lives of women across the globe, and developing various more affordable lines so as to appeal to different audiences. Christian Dior’s skill as a designer, businessman, tactician and marketer of taste laid the foundations of the international Dior empire that has retained a cer tain cachet throughout its iterations under the very different schools of Yves Saint-Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré and John Galliano. The 2011 Dior haute couture collection showed an undeniable harking back to the early years of the fashion house’s 64-year history, with Galliano citing ‘colour, material and volume’ as some of its main themes. The inf luence of 1947’s New Look and the collections that followed was apparent; vividly modernised by Galliano with the occasional oriental twist. A bad time indeed, with all eyes on the fashion world, for the
The Little Below The Knee Club was furious at Dior’s
lowered skirt lengths
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