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Vintage Dior bags , shoes , evening dresses , shirts and other garments and accessories are known today for their feminine and sophisticated sensibility. Dior was born in Granville, on the Normandy coast, in His prosperous haute bourgeois parents wanted him to become a diplomat despite his interest in art and architecture.

However, they agreed to bankroll an art gallery, which Dior opened in in Paris with a friend. After seven years as an art dealer, Dior retrained as a fashion illustrator, eventually landing a job as a fashion designer for Robert Piguet, and in , following a year of military service, he joined the house of Lucien Lelong. Just five years later, with the backing of industrialist Marcel Boussac, the ascendant Dior established his own fashion house , at 30 avenue Montaigne in Paris.

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Just two years after the end of World War II, the fashion crowd and the moribund haute couture industry were yearning, comme tout Paris , for security and prosperity, desperate to discard the drab, sexless, utilitarian garb imposed by wartime deprivation. They needed to dream anew. And Dior delivered: He designed a collection for a bright, optimistic future.

His skirts could have meter-circumference hems, and outfits could weigh up to 60 pounds. Rather than rationing, his ladies wanted reams of fabric and inch waists enforced by wire corsets, and the fashion world concurred.