The history of the fashion house Christian Dior began in 1946 in a small mansion on the Parisian street Montaigne.
The founder of the legendary fashion house Christian Dior gained fame rather late: after working in the atelier of successful fashion designers of his time, Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong, he opened his own business only at the age of 42. The debut collection of Mr. Dior turned the idea of female beauty, and he himself became the most popular fashion designer not only in France but throughout the world.
With his first collection, Christian Dior sought to say goodbye to the poverty of the post-war period and the zazu style he hated. “Fashion wanted to return to its original purpose, and its purpose was to adorn women, to help them become beautiful,” Dior writes in his autobiography about the 1947 collection Crowned Line, which, thanks to journalists, became known to the whole world under the name “ NewLook. The fashion designer created the image of a flower woman - high breasts, a thin waist, like a stem, and a fluffy, like a corolla, ankle-length skirt or a little higher. Despite the fact that New Look silhouette dresses instantly glorified Dior, his debut collection caused a lot of controversies - feminists accused him of wanting to put women in corsets again, and the legendary Coco Chanel even called his work "the main horror of the late 1940s".
