Christian Dior: The Showman & The Shyman

In 1947, against the austere backdrop of post-war Paris, Christian Dior debuted his legendary New Look: the now iconic silhouette, inspired by ballerina skirts and the faiytale-femininity of dance, that revived the waist and reinvented glamour. In ten short years, he built an empire which rewrote the shape of fashion and continues to govern design today. "At the time, we felt so starved of glamour,” wrote histor...