The same sugary confection found its way into the great photographer Cecil Beaton’s account of Dior: “a bland country curate made out of pink marzipan.” Not that Christian Dior was unaware of the shortfall in his appearance. Or the “plump, balding bachelor of fifty-two whose pink cheeks might have been sculpted from marzipan,” as described by Time reporter Stanley Karnow in 1957. A man “with an air of baby plumpness still about him and an almost desperate shyness augmented by a receding chin” as American Vogue’s Bettina Ballard recalled in 1946. Settle on one who looked like Christian Dior. “OF COURSE FASHION IS A TRANSIENT, EGOTISTICAL INDULGENCE, YET IN AN ERA AS SOMBRE AS OURS, LUXURY MUST BE DEFENDED CENTIMETRE BY CENTIMETRE.” CHRISTIAN DIORį YOU CONJURED AN IMAGE of a fashion designer in your mind, you might not Photograph Henry Clarke.Ī René Bouché sketch of Dior’s 1949 cocktail dress with sweeping floor sash.ĭior photographed by Henry Clarke for Vogue with his favorite model, Renée, in 1957.įORTUNE’S FAVOR NEW LOOK CHANGING SEASONS COMPLETELY DIOR DIOR’S LEGACY Index of Searchable Terms References Picture credits Acknowledgments Dior’s monochromatic Mexique dress from 1951.
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