Christian Dior 'balloon' dress circa 2015
By Christian Dior, Jil Sander by Raf Simons
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
DIOR - (Made in Italy) Pale-pink silk short-sleeved long dress, round low-neck decorated with a wide lurex braid in yellow, golden and blue tones enhanced with matching pearls and rh...
Dior, Victoire in Pink Amadis, 1954 - Mark Shaw Editioned Giclée Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Dior, Victoire in Pink Amadis, 1954 Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size).
Giclée
Dior, Victoire in Pink Amadis, 1954 - Mark Shaw Editioned Giclée Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Dior, Victoire in Pink Amadis, 1954 Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size).
Giclée
Dior, Victoire in Pink Amadis, 1954 - Mark Shaw Editioned Giclée Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Dior, Victoire in Pink Amadis, 1954 Image size is 10" x 15" (for 11" x 17" paper size).
Giclée
J adore Dior fall 2003 pink t-shirt by John Gallino
Located in Carnate, IT
J adore Dior t-shirt. Fall winter 2003 by John Galliano. In cotton with bead and rhinestone embroidery. Size 40 French. Shoulders 40 cm Bust 42 cm Length 56 cm Good general condition...
Smoked Pink Lucite and Chrome Wall Photo Frame, Dior Home, Italy, 1970s
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Roma, IT
Stunning wall-mounted picture frame in a charming combination of smoked pink lucite and chrome. This incredibly stylish piece was produced in Italy during the 1970s and is attributed...
Lucite
Dior Lady Medium Vintage Cannage Red
Located in Torre Del Greco, IT
Dior designer bag, Lady Vintage model, size Medium, made of red Cannage leather with silver hardware details. Equipped with a zipper closure, the interior is lined with red logoed c...
$2,500
Designer's Homes, Model in Pink Dior, Peeking, 1958 - Mark Shaw Editioned Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Designers' Homes' Pink Girl Peeking -- Model wearing a Dior couture gown in a grand Parisian residence.
Giclée
$1,100
Designer's Homes, Model in Pink Dior, Peeking, 1958 - Mark Shaw Editioned Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Designers' Homes' Pink Girl Peeking -- Model wearing a Dior couture gown in a grand Parisian residence.
Giclée
$1,500
Designer's Homes, Model in Pink Dior, Peeking, 1958 - Mark Shaw Editioned Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Designers' Homes' Pink Girl Peeking -- Model wearing a Dior couture gown in a grand Parisian residence.
Giclée
$4,800
Designer's Homes, Model in Pink Dior, Peeking, 1958 - Mark Shaw Editioned Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Designers' Homes' Pink Girl Peeking -- Model wearing a Dior couture gown in a grand Parisian residence.
Giclée
$6,600
Designer's Homes, Model in Pink Dior, Peeking, 1958 - Mark Shaw Editioned Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Designers' Homes' Pink Girl Peeking -- Model wearing a Dior couture gown in a grand Parisian residence.
Giclée
John Galliano for Christian Dior Velvet Devore Scarf
By John Galliano for Christian Dior
Located in New York, NY
John Galliano for Christian Dior Orientalist patterned palest pink chiffon and velvet devore square scarf, with vari floral motifs and Boti shaped leaves.
Ride or Die (Abstract painting)
By Anya Spielman
Located in London, GB
Ride or Die (Abstract painting) Oil on panel Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between them a...
Oil, Panel
Ride or Die (Abstract painting)
By Anya Spielman
Located in London, GB
Ride or Die (Abstract painting) Oil on panel Spielman uses oil paint on canvas, paper and panel in various sizes; she works on up to forty paintings at a time, moving between them a...
Oil, Panel
Dior, Odile Wears Pink Cuba Dress, 1954 - Mark Shaw Editioned Giclée Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Dior, Odile Wears Cuba, 1954. Image size is 22" x 32" (for 24" x 36" paper size).
Giclée
Dior, Odile Wears Pink Cuba Dress, 1954 - Mark Shaw Editioned Giclée Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Dior, Odile Wears Cuba, 1954. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size).
Giclée
Dior, Odile Wears Pink Cuba Dress, 1954 - Mark Shaw Editioned Giclée Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Dior, Odile Wears Cuba, 1954. Image size is 10" x 15" (for 11" x 17" paper size).
Giclée
1920’s Backdrop, Two Models Blue and Pink by Dior, 1961 - Mark Shaw Edition
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
1920’s Backdrop Dior Two Models in Blue and Pink, 1961 -- Models in 1920's style Dior "Slim Look Line" couture photographed for LIFE by Mark Shaw in 1961.
Giclée
1920’s Backdrop, Two Models Blue and Pink by Dior, 1961 - Mark Shaw Edition
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
1920’s Backdrop Dior Two Models in Blue and Pink, 1961 -- Models in 1920's style Dior "Slim Look Line" couture photographed for LIFE by Mark Shaw in 1961.
Giclée
1920’s Backdrop, Two Models Blue and Pink by Dior, 1961 - Mark Shaw Edition
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
1920’s Backdrop Dior Two Models in Blue and Pink, 1961 -- Models in 1920's style Dior "Slim Look Line" couture photographed for LIFE by Mark Shaw in 1961.
Giclée
1920’s Backdrop, Two Models Blue and Pink by Dior, 1961 - Mark Shaw Edition
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
1920’s Backdrop Dior Two Models in Blue and Pink, 1961 -- Models in 1920's style Dior "Slim Look Line" couture photographed for LIFE by Mark Shaw in 1961.
Giclée
1920’s Backdrop, Two Models Blue and Pink by Dior, 1961 - Mark Shaw Edition
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
1920’s Backdrop Dior Two Models in Blue and Pink, 1961 -- Models in 1920's style Dior "Slim Look Line" couture photographed for LIFE by Mark Shaw in 1961.
Giclée
$416Sale Price|20% Off
CHRISTIAS DIOR WalknDior velvet logo lace up low top platform sneakers EU37.5
By MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI, Christian Dior
Located in Hong Kong, NT
CHRISTIAS DIOR WalknDior pink velvet logo lace up low top platform sneakers EU37.5 Reference: NKLL/A00557 Brand: Dior Designer: Maria Grazia Chiuri Model: WalknDior Material: Velvet,...
Giambattista Valli 2011 Pink Silk Jersey Goddess Gown
By Giambattista Valli
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The ultra feminine shade of electric lilac pink brings the elegant piece to life. The cool pink reminds us of the viral lilac pink Dior blush.
Bburago Jeep CJ-7 “Africatours” Rally Version, 1:24 Scale Die... - Italy 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
A vintage die-cast metal model produced by Bburago, representing a Jeep CJ-7 prepared in Africatours rally livery, evocative of long-distance desert and transcontinental expedition v...
Metal
Solido Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV Rally – 1:43 Scale Die-Cast Model... - Italy 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
A vintage die-cast metal model by the esteemed French manufacturer Solido, representing the Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTVin period rally competition livery. Produced circa 1979–1981, the mo...
Metal
Decorative Amethyst Box - Signed “Made in Italy” for Christian Dior
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Decorative Amethyst Box – Christian Dior Decorative box. Pink and black amethyst box with white marble interior, and a black decorative stone.
Stone, Amethyst
Vintage F/W 2003 Floral Slip Dress
By Christian Dior
Located in London, GB
John Galliano for Christian Dior Fall Winter 2003 pink floral slip dress. Features spaghetti straps, side button closure and mini length.
Dior, Theatre de France, Peach Dress, 1960 - Mark Shaw Editioned Giclée Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Fashion photography of a Dior model wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat.
Giclée
Dior, Theatre de France, Peach Dress, 1960 - Mark Shaw Editioned Giclée Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Fashion photography of a Dior model wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat.
Giclée
Dior, Theatre de France, Peach Dress, 1960 - Mark Shaw Editioned Giclée Print
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Fashion photography of a Dior model wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat.
Giclée
Miss Dior Vintage Oversized Optyl Collectors Item P02 Sunglasses Austria
By Christian Dior
Located in Baleares, Baleares
Mint Vintage Miss Dior OVERSIZED frame with light Pink lenses. Produced and design in 1970's.
Unworn 2008 Christian Dior Pink and Yellow Draped Tassel and Chain Print Dress
By Christian Dior
Located in San Francisco, CA
Christian Dior pink and yellow tassel pendant print dress from the spring 2008 collection.
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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