Word: dior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictum from Paris by Dressmaker Christian ("New Look") Dior that next spring's newest New Look will ignore bare bosoms and the plunging neckline led the Washington Daily News to headline: Jane Russell Is Declared Obsolete...
...sale last week, Editor Carmel Snow of the rival Harper's Bazaar (circ. 321,325) gasped in dismay. Leading off the magazine was a 17-page view of the new Paris fashions. It was a big beat, with photographs and sketches of dresses by such big names as Dior, Fath and Paquin. What horrified Editor Snow was not the new geometric look, but the fact that it was in Vogue at all. Harper's Bazaar had not carried the pictures; it had understood that the new styles were not to be released until Sept. 15. Editor Snow...
Every August, Parisian haute couture stages a style show dedicated to extolling the wares of Schiaparelli, Fath and Dior, and extracting the dollars of Saks, Filene's and Neiman-Marcus. This year, however, the show almost flopped before it started...
...Manhattan in 1946, he learned to his surprise and pain that U.S. dress designers considered Paris washed up as the fashion center of the world. Back home he looked up a then-obscure friend named Christian Dior, sketched a plan of action and cried, "There is no other way. You must be Joan of Arc!" Bérard, his friends believe, was the real begetter of the "New Look...
Columnist Elsa Maxwell rated first place on Hearstling Cholly Knickerbocker's annual list of the world's worst-dressed women because "she could put on an exquisite creation by Christian Dior or Jacques Fath and look as if she were wearing a sack of potatoes." Trailing Elsa came sexagenarian Musicomedienne Mistin-guett ("Continues to display her gams . . . has refused to adopt the new look"), Alice Roosevelt Longworth ("Doesn't have the time to bother about such things"), Signora Rita Togliatti ("Not born with good taste"), Cinemactress Greer Garson ("Draperies and dresses are not the same thing"), Gypsy...