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Christian Dior Gold Lame

1960s Christian Dior Brilliant Gold Lamé Wrapped Turban w Faux Knotted Front
1960s Christian Dior Brilliant Gold Lamé Wrapped Turban w Faux Knotted Front

1960s Christian Dior Brilliant Gold Lamé Wrapped Turban w Faux Knotted Front

By Christian Dior

Located in Gresham, OR

1960s Christian Dior Brilliant Gold Lamé Wrapped Turban w Faux Knotted Front: A gorgeous gold liquid lamé laminated jersey turban hat, striated fabric over a solid cap for structure.

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1970s Vintage Christian Dior Gold Silk Lamé Cheongsam Dress by Marc Bohan
1970s Vintage Christian Dior Gold Silk Lamé Cheongsam Dress by Marc Bohan

1970s Vintage Christian Dior Gold Silk Lamé Cheongsam Dress by Marc Bohan

By Christian Dior, Marc Bohan

Located in Beverly Hills, CA

70s Christian Dior by Marc Bohan Gold Silk Lamé Cheongsam long sleeve cocktail dress. - mandarin collar - frogs buttons - silk lamé velvet Fit size 6/8

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1980s Christian Dior gold lamé Cheongsam inspired wrap dress
1980s Christian Dior gold lamé Cheongsam inspired wrap dress

1980s Christian Dior gold lamé Cheongsam inspired wrap dress

By Christian Dior, Marc Bohan

Located in Beverly Hills, CA

Chic 1980s Christian Dior gold lamé cheongsam inspired wrap dress with black velvet cuff and frog fastener.

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Christian Dior Turban
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Christian Dior Turban

By Christian Dior

Located in New York, NY

Christian Dior gold lame turban with gold "fishnet" overlay and pearl jeweled embellishment.

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1960s Christian Dior Brilliant Gold Lamé Wrapped Turban w Faux Knotted Front
1960s Christian Dior Brilliant Gold Lamé Wrapped Turban w Faux Knotted Front

1960s Christian Dior Brilliant Gold Lamé Wrapped Turban w Faux Knotted Front

By Christian Dior

Located in Gresham, OR

1960s Christian Dior Brilliant Gold Lamé Wrapped Turban w Faux Knotted Front: A gorgeous gold liquid lamé laminated jersey turban hat, striated fabric over a solid cap for structure.

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Christian Dior 1980s Lamé Liquid Gold Long Sleeve Dress with front slit
Christian Dior 1980s Lamé Liquid Gold Long Sleeve Dress with front slit

Christian Dior 1980s Lamé Liquid Gold Long Sleeve Dress with front slit

By Christian Dior

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Elevate your evening with this exquisite 1980s Christian Dior creation, a masterpiece that seamlessly blends Eastern elegance with haute couture sophistication.

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Gold lamé bustier evening dress with bow John Galliano for Christian Dior
Gold lamé bustier evening dress with bow John Galliano for Christian Dior

Gold lamé bustier evening dress with bow John Galliano for Christian Dior

By Christian Dior, John Galliano for Christian Dior

Located in Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine, FR

Gold lamé bustier evening dress with bow. Main fabric composition: 54% metal, 46% silk. Silk lining. Boned Tulle cotton bustier with zip in the middle back. Button covered with lamé ...

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Christian Dior vintage 1990s liquid gold silk lame draped bustier & skirt set
Christian Dior vintage 1990s liquid gold silk lame draped bustier & skirt set

Christian Dior vintage 1990s liquid gold silk lame draped bustier & skirt set

By Christian Dior, Gianfranco Ferré for Christian Dior

Located in Antwerpen, Vlaams Gewest

Spectacular Christian Dior by Gianfranco Ferre vintage museum-worthy collector's item. Draped bustier top with attached bow and an envelope draped skirt. Made in a mix of 74% silk an...

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Christian Dior Draped Cocktail Dress

Christian Dior Draped Cocktail Dress

Located in New York, NY

Christian Dior subtle, liquid, gold lame, jersey, cocktail dress, having spaghetti straps and center front and back draping detail.

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21st Century and Contemporary French Cocktail Dresses

Christian Dior Gold Lame Turban
Christian Dior Gold Lame Turban

Christian Dior Gold Lame Turban

By Christian Dior

Located in New York, NY

Christian Dior, draped and pleated, gold lame Turban.

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Christian Dior Gold Lame and Multicolored Dress, 1950s
Christian Dior Gold Lame and Multicolored Dress, 1950s

Christian Dior Gold Lame and Multicolored Dress, 1950s

By Christian Dior

Located in Austin, TX

1950s Christian Dior multi colored printed dress with gold lame.

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Christian Dior Chiffon and Gold Lame 70's Dress
Christian Dior Chiffon and Gold Lame 70's Dress

Christian Dior Chiffon and Gold Lame 70's Dress

By Christian Dior

Located in New York, NY

Christian Dior, gold lame floral pattern, on silk chiffon, bias cut midi dress having a V neckline and halter like bodice.

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Christian Dior Gold & Black Chiffon and Lame Scarf
Christian Dior Gold & Black Chiffon and Lame Scarf

Christian Dior Gold & Black Chiffon and Lame Scarf

By Christian Dior

Located in New York, NY

Christian Dior's elegant black & gold scarf is of gold lame and black silk chiffon.

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French Couture Evening Dress in Gold and Silver Fuschia Lamé Circa 1968
French Couture Evening Dress in Gold and Silver Fuschia Lamé Circa 1968

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By Christian Dior

Located in Toulon, FR

Circa 1968 Paris France A Couture long evening dress without label in gold and silver lamé on fuschia silk satin background from the years 1968/1970. Designer houses Dior, Yves Sai...

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Vintage 1963 Christian Dior Gold Lamé & Textured Wool Documented Dress Suit
Vintage 1963 Christian Dior Gold Lamé & Textured Wool Documented Dress Suit

Vintage 1963 Christian Dior Gold Lamé & Textured Wool Documented Dress Suit

By Marc Bohan, Christian Dior

Located in Beverly Hills, CA

Breathtaking Christian Dior designer documented ensemble dating back to Fall-Winter 1963. The House of Dior has been an enduring icon of haute couture. When the talented Marc Bohan t...

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Christian Dior Gold Lame Pleated Maxi Skirt M
Christian Dior Gold Lame Pleated Maxi Skirt M

Christian Dior Gold Lame Pleated Maxi Skirt M

By Christian Louboutin

Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2

This elegant skirt is worth adding to your closet! Crafted from fine materials, it is exquisitely designed into a flattering shape.

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Christian Dior for sale on 1stDibs

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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