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 ...