Miss Dior (eBook)

A Story of Courage and Couture (from the acclaimed author of Coco Chanel)

Justine Picardie (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
352 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-35654-6 (ISBN)

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Miss Dior is a wartime story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal and 'a gripping story' (Antonia Fraser). *The New Look, a new Apple TV drama series starring Maisie Williams as Catherine Dior - in a role inspired by Justine Picardie's Miss Dior - is out now* '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.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 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.' SUNDAY TIMES

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. Her most recent book was Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture, a biography of the sister of legendary fashion designer Christian Dior, published by Faber & Faber in 2021. 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.

Autor

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2021
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Dior, Gucci, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Versace, Yves Saint Laurent, Fendi, Cartier, Adidas, Nike, Hermes, UNIQLO • Dior Talks, Gucci Podcast, Metier Class: 3.55 Chanel, Dressed, The Vogue Podcast, Fashion Unzipped, Fashion Revolution, The Business of Fashion, The High Low, Fashion Fix • If the Spirit Moves You, Truth or Dare, Wish I May, My Mother's Wedding Dress, Daphne, Coco Chanel • The Beautiful Fall, Alicia Drake, Diana Vreeland, Chanel, Jerome Gautier, Dior by Dior, Christian Dior, All About Yves, Catherine Ormen, The Price of Illusion, Joan Juliet Buck • The Beautiful Fall, Alicia Drake, Diana Vreeland, Chanel, Jerome Gautier, Dior by Dior, Christian Dior, All About Yves, Catherine Ormen, The Price of Illusion, Joan Juliet Buck, Coco Chanel: The Illustrated world of a Fashion Icon, Megan Hess, Little Book of Chanel, Emma Baxter-Wright, Little Book of Dior, Karen Homer, The Illustrated World of Couture • The Rat Line, East West Street, Philippe Sands, House of Glass, Hadley Freeman, When Time Stopped, Ariana Neumann, Kiss Myself Goodbye, Ferdinand Mount • The Rat Line, East West Street, Philippe Sands, House of Glass, Hadley Freeman, When Time Stopped, Ariana Neumann, Kiss Myself Goodbye, Ferdinand Mount, On Chapel Sands, Laura Cummings, • The September Issue, Dior & I, Iris, Bill Cunnigham, Inside Dior • Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, V&A, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, Allure, GQ, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Dazed, Grazia, Esquire
• ISBN-10: 0-571-35654-0 / 0571356540
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35654-6 / 9780571356546