Christian Dior

by: Mehreen Ahmed

 

Website:

http://www.dior.com/prehomeFlash.htm

 

Details Personnels: 

I was born in Granville, France. While I wanted to be an architect, my family wanted me to be a diplomat. I was enrolled at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, but in 1928, I left my diplomatic career and became an art dealer. I was forced to give up the business in 1934 because of an illness and returned to Paris a year later. When I came back I was a fashion illustrator, starting with hats and then moving to dresses. This was the very start of my fashion career.

 

Date de Naissance:

January 21, 1905 in Granville, France

 

Date de Mort:

October 24, 1957 in Montecatini, Italy

 

Sexe:

Male

  

Situation de Famille:

• I never got married.

 

Enfants:

• I never had children.

 

Metier:

• I was a French diplomat from 1925-1928.
• I was in the French Army from 1925-1928.
• I was an art dealer in Paris from 1928-1931.
• I was a fashion designer for Lucien Lelong from 1941-1946.
• I opened the House of Dior in 1946 and ran it until my death.

 

Interets/Loisirs:

• I was interested in art.
• I was interested in fashion.
• I was interested in sketching, in which I combined my art skills with my fashion skills to create clothes. 

 

Accomplissements:

• I created Paris as the fashion capital of the world, during the fashion standstill in World War II.
• My first collection, Corolle was named "The New Look" by the United States fashion press.

 

Prix:

• Neiman Marcus Award, Dallas in 1947
• Remise de la legion d'honneur a Christian Dior in 1950
• Parsons School of Design Distinguished Achievement award, New York in 1956
• Fashion Industry Foundation award, to the House of Dior, New York in 1990.

 

 

Education:

• I attended Ecoles des Sciences Politiques from 1920-1925

 

Personnage que je voudrais rencontrer et pourquoi.

A person I would like to meet is Lucien Lelong. I first began to get experience with fashion designing under his watchful eyes. I became the person I am today because of the help that he gave me while I was working for him.

  

  

Eye on Christian Dior Spring Summer 2009

 

Citation Memorable:

"The tones of gray, pale turquoise, and pink will prevail"-Dior

 

 

Mon Influence sur la Culture Francaise

I am known as The Monarch of Haute Couture. This is for quite a few reasons. In 1947 I released my new line : Corolle, or "The New Look" by the United States fashion press. I made Paris the fashion capital of the world during World War II. I also won many awards for my designs. These are the few of the things I accomplished to influence French culture.

 

My new line, Corolle, or "The New Look", was released in 1947. The line had many feautures, such as rounded shoulders,  cinched waist, more emphasis on the bust, and a bell-shaped skirt that gave more curves. At first, this was  not very well accepted by the public, especially women. Many feminists said that it was a way to make women have more of a decorative role. Others were very appalled, when they saw the great amounts of fabric I used, while clothes were being rationed and thought that during the war, this was not right. However, in1946, when the clothing rationing was lifted, people saw it as a post war symbol. Before the War, Paris had the title of the fashion capital of the world. During the war, Paris had lost that title. I brought it back with "The New Look".

In the next decade, I was quite a famous man. I created a new fashion era, and nobody had ever seen anything like it before. As I made each design, I was happy with what had come of it, and I knew my costumers were too. I changed the idea of women's fashion altogether, and throughout the 1950's designers from all over the world look to Paris for inspiration. I not only designed dresses, but jewelry, scares, ties, furs, stockings, and many other things. Paris has become the fashion capital of the world because of my success and people say that I am a very influential designers for the 20th and 21st century.

 

Notes:

After I died, the House of Dior continued under other designers, such as my protege Yves St. Laurent, followed by Marc Bohan in 1960.

 

 

The House of Dior

 

 

Christian Dior-The Man Behind The Myth-Trailer

Resources:

"Christian Dior." American Decades. Gale Research 1998. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009.  http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

 

"Christian Dior." Contemporary Fashion, 2nd ed. St. James Press, 2002. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRc

 

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center.Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. http://galegroup.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC

 

Thinkexist.com Quotations. "Christian Dior quotes". ThinkExist.com Quotations Online 1 May. 2009. 2 Jun. 2009.

http://einstien/quotes/christian_dior/