Happy Birthday Christian Dior!!!!

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Today is Christian Dior`s birthday!!!!! Yeaaaay!!!!
He was born in Granville, a seaside town on the coast of Normandy, France. He was a son of a fertilizer manufacturer and his wife.
Dior family had hopes that he become a diplomat, but
Dior was to artistic.
 In 1928, Dior left school and received money from his father
 to finance a small art gallery, where he and a friend sold art by the likes of Pablo Picasso.
Three years later his Mother died, and he suffered from great depression, that resulted in his father losing control of the family business, the gallery had to be closed.
From then until about 1940 he worked with fashion
designer Robert Piguet, when he was called up for military service.
In 1942 Dior left the army, and joined the fashion house f Lucien Lelong, where he and Pierre Balmain were the primary designers.
On December 16, 1946 Dior founded his fashion house, backed by Marcel Boussac, a cotton-fabric magnate.
 He was a master at creating shapes and silhouettes. The actual name of the line of his first collection, presented in early 1947, was Corolle.
Dior died while on holiday in Montecatini, Italy on 23 October 1957 :((((
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The artist himself  in 1947 :))))

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