Christian Dior Contemporary Unisex Addict Lockbox Zodiac Shoulder Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Capri, IT
Christian Dior Addict Lockbox Zodiac shoulder bag Dimensions: Height: 13 cm (5.12 in)Depth: 5 cm (1.97 in)Length: 16 cm (6.3 in)
Christian Dior Contemporary Unisex Addict Lockbox Zodiac Shoulder Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Capri, IT
Christian Dior Addict Lockbox Zodiac shoulder bag Dimensions: Height: 13 cm (5.12 in)Depth: 5 cm (1.97 in)Length: 16 cm (6.3 in)
Dior Pink Leather Addict Shoulder Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Superb Dior line Addict in quilted lambskin in a very delicate shade of pink. Enriched by a particular golden closure, and equipped with an adjustable chain handle also gilded. Perfe...
Dior Addict Burgundy Top-Handle Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Krakow, PL
Dior Addict Crocodile Top-Handle Bag Burgundy Vintage Scratches Description: Vintage Dior top-handle bag Upper material: crocodile/alligator (glossy) Color: Burgundy Hardware: Gol...
Dior Black Leather Dior Addict Vertical Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
This Dior tote is a perfect companion for daily use. Crafted from supple leather in black with pink leather details, it is provided with silver-tone hardware. The bag features two fl...
Dior Black Leather Large Dior Addict Shopper Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
This Dior Addict shopper tote for women is super classy and functional, perfect for everyday use. We like the simple details and its high-quality finish.
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
This Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather with Python Vertical, crafted from beige leather, features genuine python skin handles, Dior charms and silver-tone hardware. Its mag...
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
This Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather with Python Vertical, crafted from beige leather, features genuine python skin handles, Dior charms and silver-tone hardware. Its mag...
Dior Red Orange Leather Dior Addict Shopping Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
This shopping tote from Dior is a timeless piece. The bag is crafted from red orange leather and features dual handles, protective feet at the bottom and Dior letter charms. A top bu...
Dior Black Cannage Leather Addict Wallet
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
Give your cards and currency a stylish home as you carry this Addict wallet from Dior. With the 'DIOR' gold-toned metal lettering fixed on the front and an exterior crafted from blac...
Dior Calf Leather Dior Addict Lockbox Shoulder Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Christian Dior Shoulder Bag. From the 2017 Collection. Black Leather. Brass Hardware. Single Adjustable Shoulder Strap. Single Exterior Pocket. Suede Lining with Card Slots. Push-Loc...
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Small
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
This Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Small, crafted in pink leather, features dual slim leather handles, side snap buttons, Dior charms, and bronze and silver-tone hardwa...
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Small
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
This Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Small, crafted in black leather, features dual slim pink leather handles, side snap buttons, Dior charms and pink-tone hardware. Its ...
Dior Black/Pink Leather Small Dior Addict Shopper Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
This Dior tote is a perfect companion for daily use. Crafted from supple leather in black with pink leather details, it is provided with silver-tone hardware. The bag features two fl...
Dior Black/Pink Leather Small Dior Addict Shopper Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
This Dior tote is a perfect companion for daily use. Crafted from supple leather in black with pink leather details, it is provided with silver-tone hardware. The bag features two fl...
Dior Black/Pink Leather Small Dior Addict Shopper Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
This Dior tote is a perfect companion for daily use. Crafted from supple leather in black with pink leather details, it is provided with silver-tone hardware. The bag features two fl...
Dior Black/Pink Leather Small Dior Addict Shopper Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
This Dior tote is a perfect companion for daily use. Crafted from supple leather in black with pink leather details, it is provided with silver-tone hardware. The bag features two fl...
Dior Black/Pink Leather Addict Shopping Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
Dior created this Addict tote to spark joy and give you a smile each time you take it out of your closet to complement or save an outfit. It's in leather, created in black and pink s...
Dior Black/Pink Leather Addict Shopping Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
Dior created this Addict tote to spark joy and give you a smile each time you take it out of your closet to complement or save an outfit. It's in leather, created in black and pink s...
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Large
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
This authentic Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Large is luxuriously sleek and modern in design perfect for work or everyday excursions. Crafted in black calfskin leather,...
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Large
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Condition: Good. Odor in interior. Wear on base corners, creasing and indentations on exterior. Heavy cracking and splitting on opening and handle base wax edges, scratches on hardwa...
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Small
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Condition: Very good. Creasing, wear and moderate scuffs on exterior, glue stains on handle base trims. Cracking on handle base and opening wax edges, scratches and tarnish on hardwa...
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Vertical
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Condition: Very good. Wear, creasing, scuffs, and indentations on exterior and in interior, loss of shape on handles. Cracking on base handle wax edges, scratches on hardware. Access...
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Vertical
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Condition: Very good. Creasing and minor scuffs on exterior, loss of shape on handles, cracking on handle base wax edges, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Charms, Authenticity Ca...
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Small
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Condition: Very good. Creasing, wear and moderate scuffs on exterior, glue stains on handle base trims, loss of shape on handles. Cracking on handle base and opening wax edges, scrat...
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Small
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Condition: Fair. Moderate loss of shape, darkening, scuffs and creasing wear on exterior and in interior, base corners and handles. Cracking on opening and handle wax edges. Scratche...
Dior Black/Pink Leather Addict Rendez-Vous Clutch
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
With an attractive color combination of black and pink, this Dior Rendez-Vous clutch is as stylish as practical. Its leather and fabric interior will keep your essentials in a refine...
Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Small
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
This Christian Dior Addict Shopping Tote Leather Small, crafted in pink leather, features dual slim leather handles, side snap buttons, Dior charms and gunmetal-tone hardware. Its ma...
Dior Black Cannage Leather Addict Compact Wallet
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
Give your cards and currency a stylish home with this Addict wallet from Dior. With the 'DIOR' gold-toned metal lettering fixed on the front and an exterior crafted from black Cannag...
Dior Black Cannage Leather Addict Compact Wallet
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
Give your cards and currency a stylish home with this Addict wallet from Dior. With the 'DIOR' gold-toned metal lettering fixed on the front and an exterior crafted from black Cannag...
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.
An integral part of fashion, handbags and purses have been indispensable accessories ever since we began to carry around personal items. Level of craftsmanship, style and shape matters — from coin purses in ancient Greece to early 20th-century opera bags and onward, handbags have evolved considerably over the years to meet our needs and desires, whether or not you happen to be prioritizing functionality over a flashy exterior.
Once, a single “It” handbag ruled each fashion season. No more. Today, lovers of vintage handbags are savvier and have a wider range of shopping options. Nevertheless, classics created by the likes of Louis Vuitton, Dior and Balenciaga still rule.
“It is not a fashion bag — it is a statement bag,” says Mightychic's Debra Kent of Hermès's widely beloved accessories. “When you carry an iconic Hermès bag — Birkin, Kelly, Constance — no one knows how long you have been into this culture or if you are a newbie. Your status is validated immediately.”
First released in 1997, Fendi's Baguette rose to fame along with Carrie Bradshaw, the Sex and the City character portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker. Recently, the design has seen such a resurgence in popularity that Fendi has reissued it.
They are part of design history, so owning a handbag has meaning. As New York–based fashion historian Sarah C. Byrd says, “You have made the choice to invest in this piece because you understand the value of it in the past and in the future to come.”
From a 1980s Chanel black leather quilted mini buckle bag to the rare Hermès Birkin 30cm Himalayan with diamond hardware to a range of 19th-century bags, find a rich variety of vintage and designer handbags and purses spanning numerous brands on 1stDibs — seasonal “It” designation no longer needed.