American Dior
By: introduction by Kate Betts
Publisher: Assouline
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9782759404872
Subjects: Christian Dior (Firm); Fashion; Biography; Fashion designers
Description: "American Dior contains detailed drawings of the elaborate foundations, images of the New Look collection and more. With the introduction of the New look, Dior became American fashion's ultimate agent provocateur playing on the country's appetite for newness and for French savoir-faire. His collection revolutionized women's dress. His designs were more voluptuous with the use of fabrics lined with percale, bustier-style bodices, hip padding, wasp-waisted corsets and petticoats, giving his models a very curvaceous form. Dior used to say that his client would be "the most elegant woman in the world," which proved to be true, dressing an A-list of American icons such as Lauren Bacall, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe and Elisabeth Taylor among them"--Publisher's web site.