Christian Dior (1905–1957) French fashion designer
Michael Ciry on Dior as a young boy, in p. 20
Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New
“There is no fashion so absurd, even grotesque, that it cannot be adopted, given two things: the authority of the fashion-setter (Dior, Jackie Onassis) and the vacuity or noughtness of the consumer.”
— Walker Percy, book Lost in the Cosmos
Chapter 2, section 2: The Self as Nought (II) http://books.google.com/books?id=tWZQPAoh3ZQC&q=%22There+is+no+fashion+so+absurd+even+grotesque+that+it+cannot+be+adopted+given+two+things+the+authority+of+the+fashion+setter+Dior+Jackie+Onassis+and+the+vacuity+or+noughtness+of+the+consumer%22&pg=PA23#v=onepage. <br class="br">Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (1983)
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Context: Away with false fashion, so calm and so chill,
Where pleasure itself cannot please;
Away with cold breeding, that faithlessly still
Affects to be quite at its ease;
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The freest is first of the band,
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