Miss Dior - A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture

Informationen zum Autor 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. Vorwort Miss Dior is a wartime story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal. Zusammenfassung Miss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal, roses and repression, and how the polished surface of fashion conceals hidden depths.

Report

A gripping story in which Justine Picardie brilliantly contrasts the cruel Old World of wartime France with the hopeful New World epitomised by Christian Dior's New Look: all centred round his sister Catherine Dior, a Resistance heroine. Antonia Fraser

Product details

• Authors: Justine Picardie
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2022
• EAN: 9780571356539
• ISBN: 978-0-571-35653-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Fashion, Biography: arts & entertainment, Fashion & society, History of fashion, Cultural studies: fashion and society, Biography: arts and entertainment, Cultural studies: dress and society