Christian Dior citations

Christian Dior, né le 21 janvier 1905 à Granville dans la Manche et mort le 24 octobre 1957 à Montecatini Terme en Italie, est un grand couturier français.

En 1947, il donne son nom à la maison de haute couture homonyme, financée par Marcel Boussac. Celle-ci s'illustre dès 1947 dans la haute couture et la parfumerie puis dans tous les métiers du luxe. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. janvier 1905 – 23. octobre 1957
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Christian Dior: Citations en anglais

“Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.”

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

“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

“I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.”

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

“You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe.”

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

“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

“We went from losses to goods seized by creditors, while continuing to organize surrealist or abstract exhibitions…”

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"

“In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.”

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

“I used to have frequent arguments with my father which ended in doors slamming and the ultimate expletive ‘Filthy bougeois”

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

“A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.”

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

“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.”

Variante: 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

“Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.”

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

“My dream is to save women from nature.”

Source: Newsweek, Vol. 50, Nr 19-26, (1957), p. 44

“It is quite a revolution, dear Christian. Your dresses have such a new look. They are quite wonderful you know.”

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.
Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New

“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
Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New

“Dior is like a big adolescent with old- fashioned shyness of as schoolboy and most charming in his childish awkwardness.”

Michael Ciry on Dior as a young boy, in p. 20
Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New