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Entertainment director Helen Bownass is spellbound by a new film about the House of Dior
Lots of us have a designer piece we dream of owning. I suspect I will always yearn, it’s a couture Dior dress from the atelier in Paris. Set in 1957, the film has been made in partnership with the House of Dior, and is based on Paul Gallico’s 1958 novel . It stars Lesley Manville, who was Oscar-nominated for and will soon be seen as Princess Margaret in , on sparkling form as a recently widowed cleaner who falls in love with a Dior gown in the closet of one of her clients. The dress ignites something in Ada, and she becomes fixated on raising the £500 to buy one. She heads to Paris, to the famed Avenue Montaigne (where the house is still based today) and gatecrashes Dior’s 10th anniversary show. Despite protestations from haughty directrice Claudine (Isabelle Hupert), she is taken under the wing of accountant André (Emily In Paris’s Lucas Bravo) on her quest for a Dior dress.
