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MISS DIOR

JUSTINE PICARDIE

The story of Christian Dior’s sister Catherine is told for the first time by Justine Picardie as she embarks on a biographical restoration of the woman who helped shape Dior as we know it. The former editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar UK details the years that the siblings spent apart in occupied France — Christian finessing of the art of couture; Catherine dedicating herself to the Resistance and surviving a German concentration camp — and their reunion, when Catherine returned to tend the roses that inspired the perfume Miss Dior.

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