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CHRISTIAN DIOR black suede lambskin leather patchwork biker jacket FR36 S
By MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI, Christian Dior
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By MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI, Christian Dior
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By MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI, Christian Dior
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S/S2003 Christian Dior by John Galliano cropped cotton biker jacket
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Christian Dior I Love Paris Leather Biker Bomber Jacket 2021
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By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
100% authentic Christian Dior belted biker jacket in black soft lambskin (100%) and lined in black silk (100%).
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CHRISTIAN DIOR dusty pink leather 2019 FLORAL PRINT BIKER Jacket 36 XS
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DIOR Runway cream goat leather CD bee quilted biker jacket FR38 M
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CHRISTIAN DIOR black goatskin leather bead embroidery back biker jacket FR34 XS
By Christian Dior
Located in Hong Kong, NT
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By Christian Dior, John Galliano
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Christian Dior Spring Summer 2000 collection jacket by John Galliano ultra supple and soft ecru leather jacket, biker style, short, decorated with multiple zips, buckles and silver m...
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Christian Dior Diorangeles Leather Biker Jacket
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2010s Dior Red Leather Biker Jacket
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Located in Lugo (RA), IT
Christian Dior red leather biker jacket, 100% sheep leather, featuring press buttons with "Dior" logo, zipped cuffs, two welt pockets with zip and zip closure on the front.
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Located in Lugo (RA), IT
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Christian Dior black leather biker jacket. In 100% lamb leather and black lining, the stylish Dior jacket features press buttons with "Dior" logo, zipped cuffs, two welt pockets with...
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Located in Lugo (RA), IT
Christian Dior black leather biker jacket. In 100% lamb leather and black lining, the stylish Dior jacket features press buttons with "Dior" logo, zipped cuffs, two welt pockets with...
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By Christian Dior
Located in Lugo (RA), IT
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Dior Biker Jacket For Sale on 1stDibs
On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate vintage or contemporary dior biker jacket for your needs in our varied inventory. Our collection includes a variety of colors, spanning Black, Red and more.
How Much is a Dior Biker Jacket?
The price for a dior biker jacket starts at $1,383 and tops out at $4,379, and on average, selling for $3,104.
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.
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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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No matter if you’re preparing for a fashion event or a weather event — you’re going to need a good jacket.
What would become the modern jacket as we know it began as a strictly professional item. A lot of the vintage and designer jackets (and coat styles such as the Navy-inspired peacoat) in our closets were likely popularized by soldiers who battled aggressive climes with their regulation field jackets, bombers and parkas buttoned or zipped to the chin. Indeed, keeping troopers comfortable guided the design of the military surplus garments that have often become buzzy fashion trends. But now, jackets add far more than warmth to our wardrobe, and we hunt down outer layers branded with peerless fashion labels.
Fashion’s most iconic creations, despite their age, remain modern: Biker jackets originated in the 1920s, Balenciaga’s celebrated puffers are steeped in a tradition of down coats that began in the 1930s and your vintage denim jacket has come an even longer way, from California Gold Rush to wardrobe staple. Jeans bequeathed jean jackets during the 1880s, thanks to Levi Strauss, who crafted the former as a durable garment to be worn by miners and railroad workers. Later, jeans and jean jackets became synonymous with nonconformity and rebelliousness — with fashion legends such as actor James Dean in the 1950s and model Veruschka in the 1960s and ’70s leading the indigo-toned charge.
Another fashion rebel, Coco Chanel, used the classic tweed jacket to introduce more comfort and mobility into women’s daily lives. Debuting in 1954 and based on a cardigan, the groundbreaking Chanel jacket forever changed what women wear. The garment reacted against the fitted, constricting styles of Christian Dior’s New Look, which, as Chanel saw it, was making women dress like decorative objects.
On 1stDibs, find bold collections from cutting-edge contemporary designers who’ve taken the classic silhouette of the jacket to new heights or build out your array of vintage treasures (denim or otherwise) with dazzlers from Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Versace, Moschino and more.