Christian Dior Gown Silk

Christian Dior By John Galliano 2004

Silk Evening Dresses

Christian Dior Dress Size 36

John Galliano Black Evening Gowns

John Galliano Dior Runway Dress

John Galliano For Dior Black Dresses

John Galliano Bias Cut Dress

Vintage Christian Dior Cocktail Dresses

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Christian Dior 1984 Couture Silk Gown with Jacket

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Christian Dior 1984 Couture Silk Gown with Jacket

By Christian Dior

Located in Los Angeles, CA

A silk wrap gown from Christian Dior couture, Printemps-Été 1984.

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1980s French Evening Gowns

50s Christian Dior London Black Shantung Silk Cocktail Dress

By Christian Dior

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Christian Dior - London label. Circa late 1950s - possibly Yves Saint Laurent period.Shantung silk cocktail dress with raised waistline. Retains all of the original under-pinnings. ...

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1950s British Cocktail Dresses

2006 Christian Dior by John Galliano Smoky Silk Tiered Ruffle Bias-Cut Gown

Unavailable

Size: 40

2006 Christian Dior by John Galliano Smoky Silk Tiered Ruffle Bias-Cut Gown

By John Galliano for Christian Dior

Located in Beverly Hills, CA

An absolutely breathtaking and highly coveted Christian Dior smoky taupe silk chiffon bias-cut gown dating back to John Galliano's epic 2006 spring/summer collection.

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Early 2000s French Aesthetic Evening Dresses

L 55 in

Christian Dior Champagne Silk Wedding Gown, Circa 2000

By Christian Dior

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This is a gorgeous champagne colored silk wedding gown by Christian Dior, from 2000. It has flower clusters on the sleeves and the back bow.

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Late 20th Century French Wedding Dresses

Yves Saint Laurent YSL Vintage Jewelled Heart Silk Cord Belt

By Yves Saint Laurent

Located in Nice, FR

YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage black passementerie cord belt featuring a gold and silver toned heart with crystal embellishement. One size fits all. Adjustable length. Embossed YSL Mad...

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20th Century French Belts

New Rare Tom Ford for Gucci Studded Ad Runway Heels Pumps Sz 7

$1,547Sale Price|30% Off

Size: 7

New Rare Tom Ford for Gucci Studded Ad Runway Heels Pumps Sz 7

By Gucci

Located in Conroe, TX

Gucci Tom Ford Heels Brand New Rare Ad/Runway Heels Tom Ford for Gucci Fall 2003 Own a Piece of Fashion History U.S. Size: 7 Brown Leather Pumps Gold Studded Hardware 4.5" Heel &...

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Early 2000s Italian Shoes

Paco Rabanne Paris Black Leather Shoulder Bag 1980s

$285

H 10 in L 10.5 in

Paco Rabanne Paris Black Leather Shoulder Bag 1980s

By Paco Rabanne

Located in University City, MO

Paco Rabanne Paris Black leather shoulder bag c 1980s The classic saddle style shoulder bag is covered in supple black leather. Designed with twin leather shoulder straps The fron...

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Late 20th Century French Structured Shoulder Bags

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Christian Dior Gown Silk For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the vintage or contemporary christian dior gown silk you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. Many people prefer Black, but fashion is all about individuality — you can find Beige, Brown and more options on these pages. If you’re looking for a christian dior gown silk from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 20th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. An accessory like this designed by Christian Dior, John Galliano for Christian Dior and John Galliano — each of whom created a beautiful version of this treasured item — is worth considering. There aren’t many items for men if you’re seeking these accessories, as most of the options available are for women and unisex.

How Much is a Christian Dior Gown Silk?

The price for a christian dior gown silk starts at $382 and tops out at $28,000, and on average, selling for $2,208.

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.

On 1stDibs, find an exquisite range of vintage Christian Dior clothing, jewelry, handbags and other items.

Finding the Right Evening-dresses for You

With entire museum exhibitions dedicated to examining fashion designers and their creations, we’re finally recognizing that costuming is art. Evening dresses over time have conveyed specific statements about social class, position and beliefs. Fashion is a powerful means of self-expression, and sophisticated vintage evening dresses and gowns by our favorite couturier play no small role in making us feel wonderful but, perhaps more importantly, making us feel like ourselves.

In the 16th century, dresses and gowns were so important that England's Queen Elizabeth I defined rules about what dresses women could wear — guidance included long skirts and fitted bodices. Forward-thinking designers have responded to this history.

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel reimagined traditionally masculine garments for feminine shapes, and her elegant evening dresses and gowns promoted comfort and grace in women’s wear that had been dominated in the previous century by layers of fabric. Christian Dior's gowns celebrated luxury and femininity in the late 1940s — and gave to women the gift of glamour they’d lost in the miserable years of the war. French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent introduced innovative and highly coveted dress designs in the 1960s while at the same time challenging sexist stereotypes about which members of society could wear tuxedos.

Works by unconventional British designer John Galliano — featured in houses like Givenchy and Dior — redefined limits that dressmakers faced in terms of material, construction and vision during the late 20th century. From his embroidered absinthe-green Oscars gown for actress Nicole Kidman to the iconic sleeveless Dior newspaper dress that Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw made famous, Galliano’s intricate and multifaceted work is reliably collectible and newsworthy

Today’s designers target an increasingly broad audience with their boundary-crossing work, and their tendency to play off of each other’s ideas means that every walk down the runway is also a walk through an entire history of fashion design and dress craftsmanship.

Whether you gravitate toward backless maxi dresses or silk charmeuse gowns by Alexander McQueen or embellished, ruffled floral-print designs by Chloe or Versace, there is an extraordinary collection of vintage and designer evening dresses and gowns waiting for you on 1stDibs.

The V&A Takes a Fresh Look at the New Look’s Pioneering Progenitor, Christian Dior

Ballrooms, Bar Suits and British royals — in a sweeping exhibition, the London museum looks back on 70 years of the French fashion house, as well as its illustrious founder and his fondness for the United Kingdom.