Who adores Dior?

If you're looking for stylish elegant classics in fashion or perfume, you can't go far wrong with a look at the Dior collections.

Christian Dior (12 Jan 1905 - 23 Oct 1957) was born in the French seaside town of Granville. his father ironically brought the catchphrase to life, "where's there's muck, there's brass", with a fertiliser business.

Dior's parents wanted him to enter a career as a diplomat, but he was artistic and started to make money selling fashion sketches outside his house, with interested buyers including the likes of Pablo Picasso.

During WWII, Dior, along with a number of other leading fashion designers, dressed the wives of Nazi and French collaborator's wives. Meanwhile, Dior's sister, Catherine (1917 - 2008) was a member of the French Resistance and ws captured by the Gestapo and sent to the Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, from where she was liberated in May 1945.

Mystery still surrounds Dior's death in 1957, while on holiday in Italy. Some say it was a heart attack following choking on a fishbone, others say that it was a strong sexual encounter that brought on the heart attack.

Dior was homosexual and had no family of his own to survive him.

His name lives on in his elegant fashion designs and perfumes, now truly established as all-time classics.