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Fashion star Christian Dior stepped on the Paris catwalk on 12 February 1947 and would continue to reign supreme over the fashion scene for the rest of his life (he died in 1957). In his brief ten years as a fashion designer, he launched twenty-two haute couture collections comprising some three thousand models. The present publication focuses on the influence exerted by Dior on German fashion and the Dior reception in Germany as well as his German partners licensed to manufacture Dior costume jewellery and sheer hosiery in Germany. This publication is based on the results of intensive research drawing on unpublished primary sources. The book is published to accompany the exhibition Christian Dior und Deutschland [Christian Dior and Germany], which will be at the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin from 13 February until 28 May 2007 (followed by other museums in Germany).
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Christian Dior pulled off a coup that would revolutionise the international fashion scene when he showed his first collection on 12 February 1947. Thus was the New Look born, which made his Paris fashion house world-famous overnight. Today Diors early collections symbolise the rebirth of Paris haute couture after 1945. Within only a few years Christian Dior rose to rule over a flourishing luxury empire and was celebrated throughout the world as the monarch of fashion until his sudden death in October 1957. His twenty-two haute couture collections including the celebrated A and H as well as Tulip lines comprising some three thousand models represent a design legacy that more than any other wrote 20th-century fashion history. The present publication marks two anniversaries: it is published sixty years after the first Christian Dior collection was launched and fifty years after his untimely death. For the first time the links between Christian Dior and Germany in the founder years of Maison Dior (1947-1957) are focused on. Twenty original, for the most part unpublished Dior models from German museums are shown, including the fabulous Marlene Dietrich Collection in Berlin. The twenty-four Dior fashion jewellery sets made in Pforzheim presented here are astonishingly fine and richly diverse. This sumptuously illustrated publication contains an extensive annotated catalogue as well as essays by five distinguished specialists in fashion and jewellery on the fashion jewellery made under a licensing agreement in Germany for Dior, the early Dior fashion shows in Germany, Christian Diors sole postwar visit to Germany as well as the reception of Dior fashions as echoed in German-language journals and magazines of that time.
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Adelheid Rasche, Dr. phil., Studium der Kunstgeschichte und Romanistik an den Universitäten Salzburg und Reims, 1987 Promotion. Seit 1990 Leiterin der Sammlung Modebild Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek (Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). Zahlreiche Ausstellungen, Publikationen und Forschungen zur Kulturgeschichte von Kleidung und Mode, Mode- und Luxusindustrie, Tanz- und Modefotografie sowie zur Modekarikatur.
