Famous Christian Dior Quotes
In Marie France Pochna, Christian Dior Dior http://books.google.co.in/books?id=t5RKAAAAYAAJ, Universe/Vendome, 1996, p. 4
“I think I would be more suited to the couture side of the business!”
When his interview with Lucien Long failed to get him an employment in an office job.
Source: Marie France Pochna, "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New", p. 57
Source: Nancy MacDonell Smith The Classic Ten: The True Story of the Little Black Dress and Nine Other Fashion Favorites http://books.google.co.in/books?id=hCap5dsIJiAC&pg=PT17, Penguin, 28 October 2003, p. 17
“It is unforgivable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.”
Christian Dior The opulence of the groundbreaking “New Look” collection of 1947. p. 36, as cited in: Judith Miller (2008). Costume Jewellery, p. 36
Source: Gokhan Bu, in The Master Of The Haute Couture’s Museum http://hearttoexplain.com/2011/06/06/balenciaga-museum/, Balenciaga Museum, 6 June 2011
Christian Dior Quotes about women
Source: Malcolm Perrine McNair, Harry L. Hansen (1949) Problems in Marketing. p. 165
Variant: Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
Source: Jill Kargman Arm Candy: A Novel http://books.google.co.in/books?id=EVg6b7fFXUEC&pg=PT99, Penguin, 13 May 2010, p. 99
Christian Dior Quotes about fashion
“We were witness to a revolution in fashion and a revolution in showing fashion as well.”
Carmel Snow of Harper’s Bazar office, in p. 135
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Michael Ciry on Dior as a young boy, in p. 20
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Christian Dior Quotes
“I'm a mild man, but I have violent tastes.”
Source: " Dior http://books.google.com/books?id=l0gEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA84," in LIFE, Vol. 24, nr. 9 (1 March 1948), p. 48
“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.”
Quoted in Ladies' Home Journal, April 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=4c8fAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Zest+is+the+secret+of+all+beauty+There+is+no+beauty+that+is+attractive+without+zest%22&pg=PA90#v=onepage
In September 1932 when there was world wide economic crisis
Source: Marie France Pochna, "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New", p. 53
“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.”
Source: D. R. Schneider Saving the Whales http://books.google.co.in/books?id=yimJZOXm9bEC&pg=PA77, Bwana Doc Adventures, 1 September 2008, p. 77
“Bright reds – scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry – are very cheerful and youthful.”
Source: Maria Doulton "Simply brilliant: Cher Dior lights up Paris"
Source: Rotunda Rotunda, Volumes 34-36 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=bxoTAQAAMAAJ, Royal Ontario Museum, 2001, P.12
“If my poor maman had still been alive, I would never have tried”
After his applauded success at the "House of Dior" on Avenue Montaigne, in Paris", p. 41
Source: Marie France Pochna [ Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ffkK4dy00SoC&pg=PA170-IA16, Arcade Publishing, 1996
Due to his leaning toward Bolshevism
Source: Marie France Pochna "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New", p. 51
“My mother whom I adored, secretly wasted away and died of grief…; her death…marked me for life.”
Source: Marie France Pochna "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New", p. 48
“[Black is] the most popular and the most convenient and the most elegant of all colors.”
As quoted in: Fakiko Fukai et al. (2004) Fashion in colors, p. 195
Source: Marie France Pochna Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ffkK4dy00SoC&pg=PA170-IA16, Arcade Publishing, 1996, p. 170
As cited in: Alison Behnke (2012) The Little Black Dress and Zoot Suits, p. 18
The Little Dictionary of Fashion, 1954
Source: Maria Doulton Simply brilliant: Cher Dior lights up Paris http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/jewellery/2928/simply-brilliant-cher-dior-lights-up-paris.html. The Telegraph, 16 August 2011
Carmel Snow in Harper’s Bazar office, in p. 135
This news and the show was hailed by the American and other foreign press as French press was on strike.
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Genevieve Page, in p. 31
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His aversion for his father’s factories about which he was terrified. He was guided in all things by his mother. His senses were simulated by the floral, ornamental opulence of her world. P.11
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Bernard Arnault, p. xvi
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Bettina Bellard, in p. 135
The press review he received for his applauded orchestrated show of his ninety female outfits, giving the image of Paris reborn.
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