Christian Dior Biography
Christian Dior was born in Granville, France on January 21, 1905. He began his career as a designer in Paris, but did not start in the world of fashion. He was convinced by his parents to attend the Institute of Political Sciences which he attended for five years but did not complete his studies. In this period Dior decided to take the first step towards the future: he opened an art gallery in Paris where he began working as a fashion illustrator and later as assistant to both Lucien Lelong and Robert Piguet. In the mid-1940s he opened his first atelier in Paris with the help of Marcel Boussac. Towards the end of that decade he launched his first collection in the United States which took the name "New Look". The collection was primarily characterized by sumptuous bell-shaped skirts and an emphasis on a cinched waist in honor of the old French fashion of previous decades.
From the beginning the difference compared to the Chanel collections was evident: Christian Dior wanted to communicate through his fashion the concept of the romantic and profoundly feminine woman and introduced the use of a series of completely innovative fabrics new for the time (we are after the Second World War). Dior's female figure has extremely curvy and light shoulders. Dior style is able to constantly evolve, introducing continuous innovations, including short sleeves, pencil skirts, slimmer and slimmer waists, highlighted breast shapes and short skirts to highlight the legs. In a short time, Dior became the symbol of a new fashion, always avant-garde and attentive to new trends. Christian Dior died in 1957 at the age of 52 in Montecatini, Italy, after collapsing after a game of canasta with some of his companions. Today, Dior boutiques are practically all over the world. There are six Christian Dior stores in Italy located in the main Italian cities. An eternal icon for world fashion, a unique way of approaching style and the changes of the time, simply a world legend.
