The celebrated Dior Bar jacket turns 73 this year. With its hourglass-y line, Christian Dior provided women with the ammunition to assert their powers of seduction, and gave the gloomy postwar era a ...

“What you see in the famous Mad Men series,” says Denver Art Museum curator Florence Müller, “he has invented this.” Such is Müller’s pithy description of the deep and lasting influence of legendary ...

“I keep looking for the great collection to rise from the ashes of the war,” declares Glenn Close, acting as the legendary Harper’s Bazaar editor Carmel Snow in the upcoming television series The New ...

According to Vogue’s then-fashion editor Bettina Ballard, the New Look collection reframed the silhouette, as well as the presentation of clothes. Here’s her first person account of Dior’s debut from ...

“Make me a perfume that smells like love” Christian Dior asked perfumer Paul Vacher in 1947 to create the legendary Miss Dior scent, launched right after the Second World War, at a time when an ...