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The Dior Palette
Porcelain Pink, Dior Red
“Suddenly one is plunged in the middle of an ocean of materials, each more wonderful than last!”
The choice of fabric, which suppliers, or placiers, would come to present to Christian Dior personally a few weeks before a collection was designed, was a crucial step. The “hand” of a fabric, meaning how it feels to the touch, transforms a look just as much as its shade. The twenty-two collections created by Christian Dior, from Spring-Summer 1947 to Autumn-Winter 1957, are shown here through the collection charts to which samples of fabric are attached. Taken together, they highlight the colour palette favoured by Christian Dior.
“My childhood home was roughcast in a very soft pink, mixed with grey gravelling, and these two shades have remained my favourite colours in couture,” Christian Dior recalled, as he included shades of soft pink, such as “porcelaine” and “soupir”, in his earliest collections. In contrast, more striking reds – “scream”, “satan” – exuded their power of seduction. The famous “Dior red” started appearing in 1949. Four years later, it had developed into a range of eight lipsticks, from incandescent to a lighter carmine, followed by the first nail polishes in 1962, and by the Ultra Dior nail polishes in 1965.
Next Room
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Ateliers of Dreams
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The Dior Palette
Porcelain Pink, Dior Red
“Suddenly one is plunged in the middle of an ocean of materials, each more wonderful than last!”
The choice of fabric, which suppliers, or placiers, would come to present to Christian Dior personally a few weeks before a collection was designed, was a crucial step. The “hand” of a fabric, meaning how it feels to the touch, transforms a look just as much as its shade. The twenty-two collections created by Christian Dior, from Spring-Summer 1947 to Autumn-Winter 1957, are shown here through the collection charts to which samples of fabric are attached. Taken together, they highlight the colour palette favoured by Christian Dior.
“My childhood home was roughcast in a very soft pink, mixed with grey gravelling, and these two shades have remained my favourite colours in couture,” Christian Dior recalled, as he included shades of soft pink, such as “porcelaine” and “soupir”, in his earliest collections. In contrast, more striking reds – “scream”, “satan” – exuded their power of seduction. The famous “Dior red” started appearing in 1949. Four years later, it had developed into a range of eight lipsticks, from incandescent to a lighter carmine, followed by the first nail polishes in 1962, and by the Ultra Dior nail polishes in 1965.