Christian Dior and Germany 1947-1957

by Rasche, Adelheid

• ISBN13: 9783897902657
• ISBN10: 3897902656
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-01
• Publisher: Arnoldsche

Summary

Christian Dior pulled off a coup that would revolutionise the international fashion scene when he showed his first collection on 12 February 1947. Thus was the 'New Look' born, which made his Paris fashion house world-famous overnight. Today Dior's early collections symbolise the rebirth of Paris haute couture after 1945. Within only a few years Christian Dior rose to rule over a flourishing luxury empire and was celebrated throughout the world as the monarch of fashion until his sudden death in October 1957. His twenty-two haute couture collections - including the celebrated A and H as well as Tulip lines - comprising some three thousand models, represent a design legacy that, more than any other, wrote 20th-century fashion history. This superlative publication marks two anniversaries: it is published sixty years after the first Christian Dior collection was launched and fifty years after his untimely death. For the first time the links between Christian Dior and Germany in the founder years of Maison Dior (1947-1957) are focused on. Twenty original, for the most part unpublished Dior models from German museums are shown, including the fabulous Marlene Dietrich Collection in Berlin. The twenty-four Dior fashion jewellery sets made in Pforzheim presented here are astonishingly fine and richly diverse. This sumptuously illustrated book contains an extensive annotated catalogue as well as essays by five distinguished fashion and jewellery specialists, on the fashion jewellery made under a licensing agreement in Germany for Dior, the early Dior fashion shows in Germany, Christian Dior's sole post-war visit to Germany as well as the reception of Dior fashions as echoed in German-language journals and magazines of that time.

Table of Contents

Christian Dior and Germany	p. 34
Dior Models in German museum collections	p. 38
Models 1947 to 1957	p. 46
Christian Dior company publication, 1954	p. 97
Dior accessories licensed to be made in Germany	p. 122
Dior jewellery from Henkel & Grosse in Pforzheim	p. 130
Jewellery 1955 to 1957	p. 142
A whisper of luxury from postwar Germany : Dior sheer hosiery from Werner Uhlmann in Lippstadt	p. 180
Dior in Germany : visits, presentations, responses	p. 190
October 1955 : Christian Dior visits Germany	p. 192
Christian Dior in West Berlin	p. 196
Fashion shows held by Christian Dior in Germany, 1949 to 1953	p. 206
Everyone's talking about Dior : media response in German magazines and books	p. 230
Christian Dior in the German press	p. 249
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