Even the book by Hans Vaughan ... representation of regressive 1950s conservatism in gender ideology. Dior’s New Look directly opposed Chanel’s lovely yet practical body-liberating designs ...

The New Look – a lavish repudiation of wartime pragmatism – went on to define Dior’s style and is now ... In his 2011 book, Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War, veteran ...

In 1946, when Christian Dior saw the four-storey hôtel particulier at 30 Avenue Montaigne, built in the 1860s for a son of Napoleon, he knew he had to have it for his new fashion house ... restored to ...

They should dare to seize it. Once upon a time Dior’s New Look changed wardrobes for a changed world. Who will rise to the occasion now?Credit...Illustration by The New York Times; Michael Ochs ...

The rest of the cast features Maisie Williams as Catherine Dior, John Malkovich as Lucien Lelong, Emily Mortimer as Elsa Lombardi and Claes Bang as Spatz. Not only does The New Look feature a star ...