Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Culture

Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Culture

Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Culture

Author/Seller
Justine Picardie
SKU:
9780571356539
$40.00
Miss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal, roses and repression, and how the polished surface of fashion conceals hidden depths.

Miss Dior explores the relationship between the visionary designer Christian Dior and his beloved younger sister
Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume and shaped his vision of femininity. Justine Picardie's journey takes her
to wartime Paris, where Christian honed his couture skills while Catherine dedicated herself to the French Resistance and
the battle against the Nazis, until she was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the German concentration camp of
Ravensbrück.
Tracing the paths of the Dior siblings leads Picardie deep into other hidden histories, and different forms of resistance and
sisterhood. She discovers what it means to believe in beauty and hope, despite our knowledge of darkness and despair,
and reveals the timeless solace of the natural world in the aftermath of devastation and destruction.

Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Culture

$40.00

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