CHRISTIAN DIOR burgundy CROCODILE LADY DIOR MEDIUM Tote Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
This 100% authentic Christian Dior Medium Lady Dior bag is crafted in glossy burgundy crocodile leather with a luxurious sheen. The structured silhouette is accented with two hard to...
Christian Dior Lady Dior Medium Black Patent Leather Crossbody Tote Shoulder Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Guangzhou, CN
Condition: Christian Dior Lady Dior Shoulder Bag Medium black Leather Origin Italy，The condition is as depicted in the image. Accessories: Dust bag, shoulder strap, identification c...
Christian Dior Lady Dior Shoulder Bag Medium black Leathe
By Christian Dior
Located in Guangzhou, CN
Condition: Christian Dior Lady Dior Shoulder Bag Medium black Leather Origin Italy，The condition is as depicted in the image. Accessories: Dust bag, shoulder strap, identification c...
Christian Dior Lady Dior Shoulder Bag Medium Gray Leather
By Christian Dior
Located in Guangzhou, CN
Condition: Normal signs of wear, scuffs on the four corners, minor scuffs on the surface leather, scratches on the hardware, small stains on the interior. Accessories: Shoulder strap...
Dior Medium Lady Dior Silver Lambskin Cannage SHW Crossbody Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Guangzhou, CN
These are professional pictures of the actual item offered by Eluse. Condition: Normal signs of use, There is slight wear on the leather at the four corners and the bottom. , sc...
DIOR Medium Lady Dior Bag Grey Cannage Lambskin Gold Hardware
By Christian Dior
Located in Guangzhou, CN
Condition: Normal signs of use, wear on the four corners, scratches on the metal hardware, and clean interior. Accessories: Dust bag,shoulder strap size: Width:24cm,height:20.5cm ...
Christian Dior Medium Lady Dior Blue Cannage Leather Chain Bag GHW Italy
By Christian Dior
Located in Guangzhou, CN
Condition: Christian Dior new Medium Lady Dior Tote bag blue chai bag shoulderbag Italy，There is wear on the corners, please see the detailed picture.Purchased in 2019 Accessories: ...
Christian Dior Red Cannage Patent Leather Medium Lady Dior Bag Silver Hardw
By Christian Dior
Located in Guangzhou, CN
These are professional pictures of the actual item offered by Eluse. Condition: Christian Dior Lady Dior Medium shoulder bag Handbag Patent Red France Accessories: Dust bag, ID ca...
CHRISTIAN DIOR pale blue yellow grey 2015 TRI COLOR LADY DIOR MEDIUM Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
100% authentic Christian Dior 2015 lady Dior in tricolor light blue, yellow and grey Cannage stitching grained leather. Silver-finish metal hardware and the 'D.I.O.R.' charms complet...
Christian Dior Lady D-Lite Medium Blue Cannage Embroidered Canvas Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Guangzhou, CN
These are professional pictures of the actual item offered by Eluse. Condition: Slight signs of use, clean interior, no damage on the surface, minor scratches on the hardware, ov...
CHRISTIAN DIOR burgundy CANNAGE patent leather LADY DIOR MEDIUM TOTE Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
100% authentic Christian Dior Medium Lady Dior bag is crafted in burgundy red patent calfskin with signature Cannage stitching. Silver-finish metal hardware and the 'D.I.O.R.' charms...
CHRISTIAN DIOR black & white leather 2018 CHECK LADY DIOR MEDIUM TOTE Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
100% authentic Christian Dior Limited Edition Lady Dior shoulder bag in black and white calfskin from the spring/summer 2018 runway collection. The bag features antique silver-tone h...
Christian Dior Medium Lady Dior Silver Lambskin Cannage SHW Crossbody Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Guangzhou, CN
Condition: Normal signs of use, There is slight wear on the leather at the four corners and the bottom. , scratches on the metal hardware, clean interior, and overall good condition...
Dior Metallic Silver Supple Cannage Leather Medium Lady Dior Tote
Located in New York, NY
Listing Title: Dior Metallic Silver Supple Cannage Leather Medium Lady Dior Tote SKU: 156598 Condition: Pre-owned (3000) Handbag Condition: Very Good Condition Comments: Very Good Co...
Dior Multicolor Cannage Leather Medium Lady Dior Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
A timeless status and great design mark the Lady Dior tote. It is an iconic bag that people continue to invest in to this day. We have here this classic beauty crafted from Cannage l...
Dior Multicolor Cannage Leather Medium Lady Dior Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
Due to detailed and innovative designs Dior has managed to be at the top of fashions hierarchy through the years. Infuse the signature aesthetics of the brand into your outfit by ac...
Dior Red Cannage Patent Leather Medium Lady Dior Tote
By Christian Dior
Located in Dubai, Al Qouz 2
This alluring tote bag for women has been designed to assist you on any day. Convenient to carry and fashionably designed, the tote is cut with skill and sewn into a great shape. It ...
Christian Dior Lady D-Lite Bag Embroidered Canvas Medium
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Condition: Great. Minor fraying on rear base corner, glue stains on handles, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap Measurements: Height 8", Width 9.5", Depth 3.5" ...
Christian Dior Lady D-Lite Bag Houndstooth Canvas Medium
By Christian Dior
Located in NY, NY
Condition: Very good. Minor creasing on exterior and strap, glue stains on base corner, handle and interior base stitching, scratches on hardware. Accessories: Dust Bag, With Strap M...
CHRISTIAN DIOR purple leather 2022 DIAMOND MEDIUM LADY DIOR TOTE Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
This 100% authentic Christian Dior Medium Lady Dior tote in Denim (smokey purple) Diamond Cannage leather combines classic elegance with modern functionality.
Christian Dior Vintage Black Nylon Lady Dior Tote Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Rome, Rome
Embrace the sophisticated allure of the 1990s with this Christian Dior Vintage Black Nylon Lady Dior Tote Bag. This iconic piece, a staple of Italian craftsmanship, captures the esse...
2015 Dior Blue Quilted Patent Leather Medium Lady Dior
By Christian Dior
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
CHRISTIAN DIOR Blue Quilted Patent Leather Medium Lady Dior This CHRISTIAN DIOR Medium Lady Dior is in Excellent Pre-Owned Condition accompanied by Dior Dust Bag, Authenticity Card,...
2012 Dior Deep Red Quilted Patent Leather Medium Lady Dior
By Christian Dior
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
CHRISTIAN DIOR Deep Red Quilted Patent Leather Medium Lady Dior This CHRISTIAN DIOR Medium Lady Dior is in Excellent Pre-Owned Condition accompanied by Dior Dust Bag, Authenticity C...
2014 Dior Deep Red Quilted Patent Leather Medium Lady Dior
By Christian Dior
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
CHRISTIAN DIOR Deep Red Quilted Patent Leather Medium Lady Dior This CHRISTIAN DIOR Medium Lady Dior is in Excellent Pre-Owned Condition accompanied by Shoulder Strap.
2000 Christian Dior Khaki Monogram Patent Leather Medium Lady Dior
By Christian Dior
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
CHRISTIAN DIOR Khaki Monogram Patent Leather Medium Lady Dior Xupes Reference: CB291 Serial Number: MA-0050 Age (Circa): 2000 Accompanied By: Christian Dior Dust Bag, Shoulder Strap...
Christian Dior Lady Dior Black Nylon Medium Size Vintage Gold Hardware Preowned
By Christian Dior
Located in New York, NY
Christian Dior Handbag Cannage Lady Dior Gold Hardware Nylon Black Authentic With its cannage quilting, Dior’s Medium Black Fabric Lady Dior is made of fabric for a laid-back take on...
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H 7.88 in W 9.45 in
2014 Christian Dior Navy Smooth Calfskin Leather Pocket Detail Medium Lady Dior
By Christian Dior
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
CHRISTIAN DIOR Navy Smooth Calfskin Leather Pocket Detail Medium Lady Dior Xupes Reference: HB3436 Serial Number: 01-BO-0164 Age (Circa): 2014 Accompanied By: Dior Dust Bag, Shoulde...
Christian Dior Vintage Cannage Lady Dior Medium Vintage White Bag Excellent Con
By Christian Dior
Located in New York, NY
Christian Dior Top Handle Bag From the 2005 Collection by John Galliano Vintage The Lady Dior bag embodies the House's vision of elegance and beauty. Sleek and refined, the timeless ...
Christian Dior Blush Ultramatte Cannage Quilted Large Lady Dior Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Rome, Rome
Details MATERIAL: Leather COLOR: Pink MODEL: Lady Dior GENDER: Women COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Italy SIZE: Medium FABRIC TYPE: Jacquard MATERIAL PROCESSING: Quilted MATERIAL EFFECT: n.a.
CHRISTIAN DIOR beige 2020 CANNAGE MEDIUM D-LITE TOTE Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
This 100% authentic Christian Dior Medium Lady D-Lite tote in beige cannage embroidered canvas is a sophisticated blend of elegance and versatility.
CHRISTIAN DIOR grey Cannage canvas 2020 MEDIUM LADY D-LITE Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
100% authentic Christian Dior Medium Lady D-Lite tote in grey cannage embroidered canvas featuring light gold-tone hardware.
CHRISTIAN DIOR Stoen grey 2020 MEDIUM LADEY DIOR ULTRAMATTE CROC Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
This 100% authentic Christian Dior Medium Lady Dior bag in Grey Stone Ultramatte Crocodile is a stunning example of timeless elegance and luxury craftsmanship.
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Size: 14.5"L x 6.5"W x 11.0"H
Christian Dior Signature Medium Book Top Handle Tote In Blue Oblique Canvas Blue
By Christian Dior
Located in Salt Lake Cty, UT
Authentic Christian Dior Signature Medium Book Tote In Blue Oblique Canvas Make a bold style statement with the Dior Signature Medium Book Tote in blue Oblique canvas.
CHRISTIAN DIOR metallic gold leather LADY DIOR MEDIUM Tote Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
100% authentic Christian Dior Lady Dior Medium Shoulder Bag in metallic gold-tone cannage lambskin. Opens with a zipper on top and is lined in light grey soft suede with one zipper p...
CHRISTIAN DIOR black Cannage leather LADY DIOR SOFT MEDIUM Tote Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
100% authentic Christian Dior 'Lady Dior Soft Medium' tote bag in black cannage lambskin.
CHRISTIAN DIOR burgundy CANNAGE patent leather LADY DIOR MEDIUM TOTE Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
100% authentic Christian Dior Medium Lady Dior bag is crafted in burgundy red patent calfskin with signature Cannage stitching. Silver-finish metal hardware and the 'D.I.O.R.' charms...
CHRISTIAN DIOR metallic gold Cannage leather LADY DIOR MEDIUM Tote Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
100% authentic Christian Dior 'Lady Dior Medium' shoulder bag in golden cannage calfskin. Opens with a zipper on top and is lined in dark brown classic Dior nylon with one zipper poc...
CHRISTIAN DIOR navy blue CANNAGE leather LADY DIOR MEDIUM TOTE Bag
By Christian Dior
Located in Zürich, CH
100% authentic Christian Dior Medium Lady Dior shoulder bag in navy blue cannage lambskin featuring silver-tone hardware. Opens with a zipper on top and is lined in navy blue classic...
Christian Dior Grey Cannage Quilted Lambskin Medium Lady Dior
By Christian Dior
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Christian Dior Grey Cannage Quilted Lambskin Medium Lady Dior Brand- Christian Dior Model- Medium Lady Dior Product Type- Shoulder, Tote Serial Number- 16******** Age- Circa 2014 A...
Christian Dior Lady Dior Handbag Patch Embellished Leather Medium
By Christian Dior
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
This authentic Christian Dior Lady Dior Patch Embellished Leather Medium presented in the brand's 2014 Collection mixes the timeless Lady Dior design with kitschy, work-of-art design...
CHRISTIAN DIOR White Studded Calfskin Leather Medium Lady Dior
By Christian Dior
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
CHRISTIAN DIOR White Studded Calfskin Leather Medium Lady Dior Serial Number: 09-MA-1013 Age (Circa): 2003 Accompanied By: Christian Dior Dust Bag Authenticity Details: Date Stamp (...
CHRISTIAN DIOR White Studded Calfskin Leather Medium Lady Dior
By Christian Dior
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
CHRISTIAN DIOR White Studded Calfskin Leather Medium Lady Dior Serial Number: 09-MA-1013 Age (Circa): 2003 Accompanied By: Christian Dior Dust Bag Authenticity Details: Date Stamp (...
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.
From classic medium-sized Louis Vuitton leather tote bags to authentic cube-like Loewe shoulder bags woven in raffia, the large selection of vintage and designer tote bags on 1stDibs offers something for special occasions as well as everyday needs.
Although part of a modern look, tote bags have been roomy and versatile accessories since at least 1944, with the launch of L.L.Bean’s “ice bag.” The Maine retailer, then largely known for rugged field coats and hunting shoes, had introduced a big, durable canvas bag that was initially intended to carry firewood or ice. In those days, to keep produce and other foods cool in refrigerators, consumers had to regularly replace the blocks of ice that were doing all the work in their bulky appliances. There was no better bag to help haul big blocks of ice from the trunk of your car to your front door and, subsequently, to your kitchen.
Years later, during the 1960s, L.L.Bean’s Boat and Tote was introduced as an overhauled structured canvas version of the ice bag. Tested to lug up to 500 pounds, the Boat and Tote became a best seller. Also during the 1960s, American designer Bonnie Cashin created the Cashin Carry for Coach. Cashin was Coach’s first lead designer, and she liked leather, large pockets and earth tones. Her modern interpretation of the tote bag introduced a touch of elegance to this increasingly ubiquitous accessory.
In the subsequent decades, more brands debuted their own iterations of the tote bag, from Tory Burch’s Perry leather tote bag to Goyard’s luxurious Saint Louis.
Pay tribute to this long and interesting history of a well-loved accessory by browsing the vintage and designer tote bags on 1stDibs.