Christian Dior
Christian Dior was born in Granville, Normandy, France on January 21st, 1905 and is the Fashion Designer. At the age of 52, Christian Dior biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Christian Dior (1905-1905 – 23 October 1957) was a French fashion designer, best known as the creator of one of the world's best fashion houses, but also known as Christian Dior, which is now owned by Groupe Arnault.
His fashion houses are now all around the world.
Early life
Christian Dior was born in Granville, a seaside town off the coast of Normandy, France. He was the second of five children born to Maurice Dior, a wealthy fertilizer manufacturer (the family company was Dior Frères), and his partner, formerly Madeleine Martin. He had four siblings: Raymond (father of Françoise Dior), Jacqueline, Bernard, and Catherine Dior. When Christian was about five years old, the family moved to Paris, but the family has also returned to Normandy for summer holidays.
The Dior family had hoped that he would become a diplomat, but Dior was artistic and wanted to be involved in art. He sold his fashion sketches outside his house for about ten cents each, in order to make money. Dior left school and raised funds from his father to finance a small art gallery, where he and a friend sold art by the likes of Pablo Picasso. Following Dior's mother and brother's deaths, as well as financial difficulties during the Great Depression that resulted in his father losing control of the family's business, the gallery was shut three years later.
Dior was employed by fashion designer Robert Piguet, who gave him the opportunity to design for three Piguet collections from 1937. "Robert Piguet taught me the virtues of simplicity, which are the basis of true elegance," Dior says later. "Cafe Anglais," one of Piguet's original designs, was particularly well-received. Dior, a student at Piguet, worked with Pierre Balmain and was appointed as house designer by Marc Bohan in 1960, who would then assume the role of design for Christian Dior Paris in Piguet. When he was called up for military service, Dior left Piguet.
When Dior left the army, he joined Lucien Lelong, where he and Balmain were the primary designers. Dior, a Lelong employee who survived the French fashion industry during wartime for economic and artistic reasons, created dresses for Nazi officers and French collaborators' wives, as well as other fashion houses that survived in business during the war, including Jean Patou, Jeanne Lanvin and Nina Ricci. Catherine (1917–2008), a French Resistance fighter, was apprehended by the Gestapo and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was detained until her release in May 1945. In 1947, he launched Miss Dior, a tribute to his sister.