What Makes Dior Unique? Best Slippers, Sandals and Shoes
Scroll down to see celebrities wearing dresses and shoes by Christian Dior, commonly known as Dior, a French luxury goods company controlled and chaired by French businessman Bernard Arnault.
He heads LVMH, the world’s largest luxury group, and made the news when promising €200 million ($226 million) to help rebuild Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral.
Kate Moss appears in an advertising campaign for Dior in central London (Credit: Z.Tomaszewski / WENN)
The brand is named after its founder, Christian Dior, who founded the fashion house in 1946 with backing from Marcel Boussac, a successful entrepreneur known as the richest man in France at the time.
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When Christian Dior’s first collection was released in February 1947, Harper’s Bazaar’s then Editor-in-Chief, Carmel Snow, told Dior that “it’s quite a revolution, dear Christian! Your dresses have such a new look!”.
The phrase ‘new look’ would come to define the fashion house, which focused on creating new silhouettes for women with short skirts, tighter waists, and a focus on accentuating the torso.
Christian Dior’s clothing complimented a woman’s curves. He blended old and new with innovative designs and reviving older practices such as lining fabrics like taffeta.
The brand became an instant success, with Christian Dior earning a client list that included all the 1950s jet-set scene.
A familiar name crops up in the early years of Christian Dior. After the founder’s death in 1957, Yves Saint Laurent took over as Creative Director, continuing his work but with a focus on softer feminine designs.
Yves Saint Laurent is introduced at a press conference at the Christian Dior salon in 1957 (Credit: WENN / ITN)
In the late 60s, they replaced Saint Laurent with Marc Bohan – the man responsible for creating the vision of Dior that we have today.
He created Dior’s first ready-to-wear collection, naming it ‘Miss Dior’, a phrase that has reappeared on everything from bags to perfumes.
1989 saw Gianfranco Ferre take over as Head Designer, ushering in an era of modernization within the brand while staying true to the refinement of the ‘new look’.
Italian fashion designer Gianfranco Ferré and Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE attend the amfAR Gala Cannes in 1999 (Credit: WENN / KCS)
By the start of the 1990s, Christian Dior was an international luxury brand that was recognizable around the world.
The focus shifted to Christian Dior’s bags in 1995 when Princess Diana, the most photographed woman in the world, was gifted a bag by Bernadette Chirac.
They nicknamed the bag ‘the Chouchou’ before it appeared on the arm of the British royal.
After being photographed with the bag twice within several weeks, Dior asked for Diana’s blessing to rename the bag the ‘Lady Dior’.
This bag is now the most iconic style in the brand’s catalog, rivaling Chanel’s 2.55 bag.
Since the 90s, Christian Dior has had several notable leadership appointments.
John Galliano’s aesthetic combined romanticism and modernism to create contemporary pieces that maintain the feel of the founder’s original designs.
John Charles Galliano was the head designer of Christian Dior from October 1996 to March 2011 (Credit: Z. Tomaszewski / WENN)
His Spring/Summer 2000 collection included the infamous Dior Saddle bag.
In 2012, Raf Simons became Artistic Director at Dior, ushering in an era of minimalism and chic designs that became known as ‘the new couture’ within Dior.
For the brand’s more modern take on the idea of femininity, you can thank Maria Grazia Chiuri.
Her first collection – Spring/Summer 2017 – gave a new take on the idea of womanhood. Maria shifted Dior from the 1950s views on women to embracing the modern woman.
Photographed with Charlize Theron, Maria Grazia Chiuri was appointed the creative director of Dior in July 2016 (Credit: Instar / WENN)
Her collections have infamous included the “we should all be feminists” t-shirt and the J’Adior bags.
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