Christian Dior Quotes

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A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
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By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.
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Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.
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You look like Cinderella," said Val in awe. "Yeah, if she'd been into bondage and had Christian Dior for a godmother.
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Daniel O'Malley (The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1))
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Happiness is the secret to all beauty; there is no beauty that is attractive without happiness.
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Christian Dior
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Don't buy much but make sure that what you buy is good.
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Christian Dior (The Little Dictionary of Fashion: A Guide to Dress Sense for Every Woman)
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High heels? Painful pleasure.
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Zest is the secret of all beauty.
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It is unforgivable to do what one doesn't love, especially if one succeeds.
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Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
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Make me a fragrance that smells like love.
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Quintana's christening was in 1966, this Christian Dior show was two years later, 1968: 1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States but they were for women who presented themselves a certain way the same time. It was a way of looking, it was a way of being. It was a period. What became of that way of looking, that way of being, that time, that period? What became of the women smoking cigarettes in their Chanel suits and their David Webb bracelets, what became of Diana holding the champagne flute and the one of Sara Mankiewicz's Minton plates? What became of Sara Mankiewicz's Minton plates?
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Joan Didion (Blue Nights)
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Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. She smelled wonderful.
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Jo NesbΓΈ
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He sensed her aroma and greedily breathed in the fragrance. He must not let himself be duped. Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man.
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Jo NesbΓΈ (Flaggermusmannen (Harry Hole, #1))
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It is astonishing how the passing of one night permits one to isolate that which one did not really like, from that which one adores!
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Christian Dior (Dior by Dior)
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I still felt like she was up to something down there, bitter and suffering as the flesh on her body withered and sank away from her bones. Did she blame me? We buried her in a carnation pink Thierry Mugler suit. Her hair was perfect. Her lipstick was perfect, blood red, Christian Dior 999. If I unearthed her now, would the lipstick have faded? Either way, she'd be a stiff husk, like the sloughed-off exoskeleton of a huge insect. That was what my mother was.
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Ottessa Moshfegh (My Year of Rest and Relaxation)
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One day we are looking at the Magnum photograph of Sophia Loren at the Christian Dior show in Paris in 1968 and thinking yes, it could be me, I could wear that dress, I was in Paris that year; a blink of the eye later we are in one or another doctor's office being told what has already gone wrong, why we will never again wear the red suede sandals with the four-inch heels, never again wear the gold hoop earrings, the enameled beads, never now wear the dress Sophia Loren is wearing.
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Joan Didion (Blue Nights)
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My aunts were elegant American women, dressed in silk and fur, with diamond rings and charm bracelets and other bracelets as heavy as chains. Their moving hands were jangling, they were playing a symphony in gold. The style of these people was so different from mine. They were as strange to me as I must have looked to them. That fall of 1947, women's fashions had changed entirely. While I left Bucharest, went through Europe for a month, a new `look' was launched in Paris by Christian Dior. Skirts were long, coats big and long, a sloppy style, a `new look', the Dior style.
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Pearl Fichman (Before Memories Fade)
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Gossip, even malicious rumors, are worth more than the most expensive publicity campaign in the world. What alarmed me most in the course of my stay in the United States was the habit of spending enormous sums of money in order to achieve so little real luxury. America represents the triumph of quantity over quality. Mass production triumphs; men and women both prefer to buy a multitude of mediocre things rather than a smaller number, carefully chosen. The American woman, faithful to the ideal of optimism with the United States seems to have made its rule of life, spends money entirely in order to gratify the collective need to buy. She prefers three new dresses to one beautiful one and does not linger over a choice, knowing perfectly well that her fancy will be of short duration and the dress which she is in the process of buying will be discarded very soon. The prime need of fashion is to please and attract. Consequently this attraction cannot be born of uniformity, the mother of boredom. Contemporary elegance is at once simple and natural. Since there is no patience where vanity is concerned, any client who is kept waiting considers it a personal insult. The best bargain in the world is a successful dress. It brings happiness to the woman who wears it and it is never too dear for the man who pays for it. The most expensive dress in the world is a dress which is a failure. It infuriates the woman who wears it and it is a burden to the man who pays for it. In addition, it practically always involves him in the purchase of a second dress much more expensive - the only thing that can blot out the memory of the first failure. Living in a house which does not suit you is like wearing someone else's clothes. There will always be women who cling to a particular style of dress because they wore it during the time of their greatest happiness, but white hair is the only excuse for this type of eccentricity. The need for display, which is dormant in all of us, can express itself nowadays in fashion and nowhere else. The dresses of this collection may be worn by only a few of the thousands of women who read and dream about them, but high fashion need not be directly accessible to everyone: it need only exist in the world for its influence to be felt.
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Christian Dior (Christian Dior and I)
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Dune by Christian Dior. Luca Turin, who wrote a fragrance guide, calls it β€˜the bleakest beauty in all perfumery.’ Here,
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Denise Hamilton (Damage Control: A Novel)
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Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.” – Christian Dior
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Brian Tracy (What You Seek Is Seeking You)
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For four years, we worked, we searched, like alchemists in pursuit of the philosopher’s stone. And then Miss Dior was born … Because, you see, for a perfume to β€˜hold’, it must first be held for a long time in the hearts of those who created it. CHRISTIAN DIOR
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Justine Picardie (Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture)
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Le Monde gives her name, but refrains from saying that Catherine was related to Christian Dior. The New Yorker article does not refer to Catherine at all; neither does The Times of London, which described the scenes that had been portrayed in court as having taken on β€˜the aspect of an inferno such as that conjured up by Dante’.
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Justine Picardie (Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture)
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La Colle Noire took some time to sell, and passed through several hands before it was bought in 2013 by Christian Dior Parfums (now part of the mighty LVMH group, as is the Dior fashion business).
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Justine Picardie (Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture)
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Catherine was named the β€˜moral heir’, responsible for preserving Christian Dior’s artistic heritage; a task that she took on with her characteristic loyalty, ensuring that his autobiography remained in print, and that his couture creations would be preserved in various archives, as well as supporting the establishment of the Dior museum in Granville.
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Justine Picardie (Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture)
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Two weeks of Hugo Boss or Christian Dior will surely be enough to do the laundry in Time!
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Petra Hermans (Voor een betere wereld)
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Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. β€”CHRISTIAN DIOR, French fashion designer
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Danielle Harlan (The New Alpha: Join the Rising Movement of Influencers and Changemakers Who are Redefining Leadership)
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We were driven to Chanel, No. 31 Rue Cambon. Three hours later, they returned us to the Ritz. The ladies changed into Christian Dior couture before heading to No. 30 Avenue Montaigne for our next appointment at the House of Dior.Β  Afterwards we had a light lunch at the Ritz before they donned Emanuel Ungaro couture and proceeded to our final appointment for the day at No 2 Avenue Montaigne.
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Young (Initiation (A Harem Boy's Saga Book 1))
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Within the tiny changing space (four poles draped with fancy velvet) hung a dozen fabulous couture gowns from internationally well-known designers such as Christian Dior, Givenchy, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino and Emanuel Ungaro. I was in seventh heaven having this rare and unexpected opportunity to study and scrutinize these exquisite designer dresses. I turned every garment inside out to see how they were sewn, beaded and constructed. That day, floating in a parade boat along other vessels in the middle of the Grand Canal in historic Venezia, my fashion schooling had begun. It was the first day of my professional fashion education.
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Young (Initiation (A Harem Boy's Saga Book 1))
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I am especially concerned that American fashion not be forgotten. Once, I met the head of a hot design school in the Netherlands, and she expressed nothing but contempt for American design – an attitude I find very offensive when espoused by Europeans and downright tragic when held by Americans. When I look through β€˜Project Runway’ applications, I am always struck by how few American designers are cited in their influences section. Invariably, the only designers they name are Alexander McQueen, Christian Dior, and Coco Chanel – often misspelled β€˜Channel.’ You only rarely see American designers listed. If you do, it’s usually Donna Karan. (I don’t understand why people don’t write Michael Kors – even just in their own political self-interest.
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Tim Gunn (Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible)