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Christian Dior - for some discount womens perfume.
Founded in 1947, the House at 30, Avenue Montaigne, near the Champs-Elysées,
rhymes with the unavoidable new look and the image of the eternal Parisian
woman with her fine shoulders and narrow waist. In the space of ten
years, from 1947 to 1957 (the date of his death), Christian Dior succeeded
in creating a fashion house whose name is famous the world over. He
was a pioneer inasmuch as he was the first to develop "licences"
for stockings, cosmetics, discount womens perfume and all accessories,
a policy that has been much imitated since.
The "CD" set within a Louis XVI style medallion is more than
a trademark, it is a legend. The House of Dior was bought up in 1987;
today, it belongs to the world's leading manufacturer of luxury goods,
the Louis-Vuitton-Moët-Hennessy Group. The artistic directorship
of the fashion and fragrance house is now in the hands of the Italian
Gianfranco Ferré for whom "Dior is the Watteau of couturiers,
full of nuances, delicate and chic. Being Italian in a house of French
tradition is to participate ahead of one's time in the Europe of 1992."
Hence, the loyalty displayed by this Pavarotti of the fashion world
to a savoir faire guaranteed by the Dior workshops, from suits with
sable piping to sumptuous gala gowns that afford a sense of structure
to romantic dreams. For the 1995 winter season, Gianfranco Ferré
has chosen to pay tribute to Cézanne, on the occasion of the
retrospective dedicated to the artist by the Grand Palais, in Paris.
Hence the blue-green muslin and chiffon in the hues of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire,
near Aix-en-Provence. The Dior touch is all there, noticeable in the cut
of the suits, the sense of detail, the inlays and hidden seams, the embroidered,
white guipure coats, the swallow-tail jacket trains and the velvet evening
gowns, faithful to that "sense of the accomplished and perfect"
dear to the inventor of the new look with womens perfume
to match and all.
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