32 GIFT
“I DRANK BECAUSE I WANTED TO DROWN MY SORROWS, BUT NOW THE DAMNED THINGS HAVE LEARNED TO SWIM.”
1913
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CONTRACTS POLIO
YEARS OLD
1953
LEFT LEG AMPUTATED
YEARS OLD
1954 46 47
DIES 13 JULY
YEARS OLD
+ POSSIBLY THREE MORE
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LIFE IN THE WORKROOMS
SALON HIERARCHY VENDEUSES
Specialist sewing was usually commissioned as piecework and sent out of house. Piecework could be poorly paid; in Chanel’s early days in couture, her embroidery was often done by impoverished White Russians.
not always a s
Sales ladies, often former models. HABILLEUSES
Literally ‘dressers’. Helpers to the vendeuses, they
IN 1935, CHANEL EMPLOYED 4,000 PEOPLE
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would fetch, carry, t and generally
fi
arrange a client to her best advantage.
PREMIERES MAINS
Literally ‘fi rst hands’. They
assigned work and undertook the most complex sewing.
SECONDES
Experienced seamstresses, who carried out the bulk of the sewing work.
PETITES MAINS
The stage between apprentice and trained seamstress, working under close direction.
ARPÈTES
Apprentices, who fetched and carried, swept up and learnt as they went.
MANNEQUINS The models, who
would show clothes to potential clients, and who would also often double as ‘fi t’ models, standing in static poses
for hours while patterns were made and fi tted onto their bodies.
NDIOR BYUMBERS
1
FAVOURITE SIBLING
Christian had two brothers and two sisters but Ginette, later known as Catherine, was his favourite. She gave him the nickname Tian. In turn, his favourite day was St Catherine’s Day. She was named a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur for her work with the resistance in the Second World War.
8
LUCKY NUMBER
Christian gave one of his debut lines the name ‘8’ because the tiny waist, the enhanced hips and the bigger bust looked a little like the fi gure eight.
The House of Dior was founded in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, in an eight-storey building with eight workshops, on 8 October 1946.
3
BOOKS
Christian self- penned books so he could put the record right about his life and work.
I AM A
COUTURIER (1951)
DIOR
BY DIOR: THE AUTO-
BIOGRAPHY OF CHRISTIAN DIOR (1957)
THE LITTLE DICTIONARY OF FASHION: A GUIDE TO DRESS SENSE FOR EVERY WOMAN (1954)
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