DIOR

Christian Dior was founded in 1946 a influential French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses.

Dior's very first collection coined the famous phrase 'New Look'  by influential Carmel Snow, the then editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar. Dior's designs were more voluptuous than the boxy, fabric-conserving shapes of the recent World War II styles, influenced by the rations on fabric. He was a master at creating shapes and silhouettes; Dior is quoted as saying "I have designed flower women." His look employed fabrics lined predominantly with percale, boned, bustier-style bodices, hip padding, wasp-waisted corsets and petticoats that made his dresses flare out from the waist, giving his models a very curvaceous form. Since Dior’s death in 1957, the brand has now expanded into couture, Prêt a Porter, cosmetics and fragrance as well as handbags and accessories. 

At Vintage Heirloom we love classic vintage Dior bags and jewellery especially the ‘monogram’ Dior on canvas Jacquard. This first went into production in the 1970s, and most recently designer John Galliano re-issued in the early ‘noughties’.