The title of the recent retrospective ‘Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams’ is a fitting sobriquet for the legendary couturier, whose 1947 collection heralded an age of fantasy, femininity and escapism in fashion after the devastation and austerity of World War II. And for more than 75 years since that revolutionary debut – famously dubbed “The New Look” by Harper’s Bazaar editor Carmel Snow – 30 Avenue Montaigne has been the address of Dior’s dream factory.
