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Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture

English

By (author): Justine Picardie

Miss Dior is a wartime story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal and 'a gripping story' (Antonia Fraser).

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'Exceptional . . . Miss Dior is so much more than a biography. It's about how necessity can drive people to either terrible deeds or acts of great courage, and how beauty can grow from the worst kinds of horror.'
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Miss Dior explores the relationship between the visionary designer Christian Dior and his beloved younger sister Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume and shaped his vision of femininity. Justine Picardie's journey takes her to wartime Paris, where Christian honed his couture skills while Catherine dedicated herself to the French Resistance and the battle against the Nazis, until she was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the German concentration camp of Ravensbrück.

Tracing the wartime paths of the Dior siblings leads Picardie deep into other hidden histories, and different forms of resistance and sisterhood. She discovers what it means to believe in beauty and hope, despite our knowledge of darkness and despair, and reveals the timeless solace of the natural world in the aftermath of devastation and destruction.

*A beautiful, full colour package featuring over 200 archival images.*

'Extraordinary . . . Picardie uses her investigative reporting skills . . . the result is Netflix-worthy and the pace page-turning . . . Catherine's story shines - the quiet Dior who preferred flowers to fashion, the unsung heroine who survived the abuse of the Third Reich to help liberate France.'
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Product Details
  • Weight: 890g
  • Dimensions: 166 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Sep 2022
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780571356539

About Justine Picardie

Justine Picardie is the author of six books including her critically acclaimed memoir If the Spirit Moves You: Life and Love After Death and the international bestseller Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life. She is a contributing editor to Harper's Bazaar having previously been its editor-in-chief. She was formerly an investigative journalist for the Sunday Times a columnist for the Telegraph editor of the Observer Magazine and features director of Vogue.

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