Christian Dior By John Galliano Lace-Trimmed Satin Brief Panty, Fall-Winter 2003
By John Galliano, Christian Dior
Located in Geneva, CH
Made from stretch-silk satin, this Christian Dior by John Galliano brief has a pretty luster and feels really soft on the skin. Outlined with delicate lace scalloping in a contrastin...
S/S 2003 Christian Dior by John Galliano Suede Up Jacket Pants Suit Set FR40
By John Galliano for Christian Dior, Christian Dior
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a luxurious suede jacket and pant set designed by John Galliano for Christian Dior's Spring/Summer 2003 collection. Seldom found as a set, these pieces feature tonal corse...
Dior jacket by John Galliano Fall-Winter 2003
By Christian Dior, John Galliano for Christian Dior
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
DIOR - 2003 Fall-Winter ready-to-wear Collection under the artistic direction of John Galliano. Red satin jacket with a silk lining. Size 40FR. Made in France. Condition: Very good ...
Christian Dior by John Galliano S/S 2003 Runway Logo Graffiti Print Mini Dress
By John Galliano for Christian Dior
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Christian Dior by John Galliano S/S 2003 Runway Logo Graffiti Print Silk Mini Dress Look 19 from the Spring 2003 Runway.
Christian Dior by John Galliano S/S 2003 Black Bondage Lace Silk Mini Dress
By John Galliano for Christian Dior
Located in Paris, FR
John Galliano’s Christian Dior Spring Summer 2003 Collection Size FR40 - US8 - UK12 / Medium-Large Excellent condition.
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Christian Dior by John Galliano F/W 2003 Khaki cachemire military jacket and car
By John Galliano for Christian Dior
Located in Milano, IT
"Christian Dior Khaki cachemire military jacket and cargo pants set Designed by John Galliano Fall-Winter 2003 Collection Khaki cachemire jacket buttons-up logo frontal closure Fe...
DIOR by JOHN GALLIANO 2003 Vintage Ballet Slipper Pink Silk Gown Maxi Dress
By Christian Dior
Located in Leonardo, NJ
John Galliano for Christian Dior Vintage SS03 Ballet slipper pale pink 100% silk Size F38 fits XS/S best Great condition, has some wear to fabric at bust and waist as pictured, faint...
Dior Raw Wool and Black Silk Smoking Jacket, 2003
By John Galliano for Christian Dior, Christian Dior
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Dior - (Made in Italy) Raw wool and black silk smoking jacket. 2003 Spring-Summer Collection under the artistic direction of John Galliano. Size 42FR. Additional information: Condi...
Christian Dior By John Galliano S/S 2003 Plunging Lace Up Tie Up Black Top
By John Galliano for Christian Dior
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Christian Dior By John Galliano S/S 2003 Plunging Lace Up Tie Up Black Top FR 36
John Galliano for Dior F/W 2003 Wool Knit Cardigan, Size 38 FR
By John Galliano for Christian Dior, Christian Dior
Located in Алматинский Почтамт, KZ
Christian Dior & John Galliano F/W 2003 Knitwear Cardigan John Galliano for Christian Dior Collection: F/W 2003 Christian Dior style: 3A13022020 Country of manufacture: France Ma...
Dior pants 'Entre Chine et Japon' by John Galliano Haute couture Spring 2003
By Christian Dior, John Galliano for Christian Dior
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
DIOR - 2003 Spring-Summer Haute Couture "Entre Chine et Japon" Collection under the artistic direction of John Galliano. Black blended silk pants. Bolduc under the brand label. Size...
Dior John Galliano A/W 2003 Bondage Bow Snakeskin High Heel Sandals 39
By Christian Dior, John Galliano for Christian Dior
Located in Mechanicsville, VA
Dior John Galliano 2003 Bondage Bow Snakeskin High Heel Sandals 39 Color Black Size 39EU Heel Height 4.5in Snakeskin upper Leather sole Buckle closure Bow embellishments Platform h...
Vintage Dior A/W 2003 Galliano Retro Bondage Bow Snakeskin Strappy Pumps 37.5
By John Galliano for Christian Dior, Christian Dior
Located in Mechanicsville, VA
Autumn/ Winter 2003 Dior John Galliano Retro Vintage Bow Snakeskin Strappy Pumps Color Black Size 37.5EU Heel Height 4.5in Snakeskin upper Leather sole Buckle closure Bow embellish...
Vintage F/W 2003 Floral Slip Dress
By Christian Dior
Located in London, GB
John Galliano for Christian Dior Fall Winter 2003 pink floral slip dress.
Limited Edition Christian Dior by John Galliano Victim Saddle Bag
By Christian Dior, John Galliano for Christian Dior
Located in Bressanone, Trentino-Alto Adige
Rare Christian Dior by John Galliano Spring 2003 "Victim" Saddle bag.
S/S 2003 Olive Green Floral Embroidered Utility Pants
By Christian Dior
Located in Atlanta, GA
A refined yet subversive piece from Christian Dior Spring/Summer 2003 Ready-to-Wear, designed by John Galliano during his era of romanticized utility and global-inspired dressing.
S/S 2003 “Columbus" Street Chic Leather Shoulder Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Atlanta, GA
A definitive piece from John Galliano’s era at Christian Dior, this black leather Columbus Street Chic shoulder bag captures the house’s early-2000s obsession with utilitarian glamou...
When Christian Dior launched his couture house, in 1946, he wanted nothing less than to make “an elegant woman more beautiful and a beautiful woman more elegant.” He succeeded, and in doing so the visionary designer altered the landscape of 20th century fashion. 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 1905. 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 1928 in Paris with a friend.
This was the start of Dior’s rise in the city’s creative milieu, where he befriended Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. 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 1941, 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.
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. “It’s quite a revolution, dear Christian!” exclaimed Carmel Snow, the prescient American editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, famously proclaiming, “Your dresses have such a new look.” The press ran with the description, christening Dior’s debut Spring/Summer haute couture collection the New Look. “God help those who bought before they saw Dior,” said Snow. “This changes everything.”
Dior’s collection definitively declared that opulence, luxury and femininity were in. His skirts could have 40-meter-circumference hems, and outfits could weigh up to 60 pounds. They were cut and shaped like architecture, on strong foundations that molded women and “freed them from nature,” Dior said. Rather than rationing, his ladies wanted reams of fabric and 19-inch waists enforced by wire corsets, and the fashion world concurred. The debut got a standing ovation.
In the subsequent decade, Paris ruled as the undisputed fashion capital of the world, and Christian Dior reigned as its king. With the luxuriously full skirts of his New Look, suits and his drop-dead gorgeous couture dresses and ball gowns worthy of any princess, Dior gave women the gift of glamour they’d lost in the miserable years of war.
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