There are many designers who have greatly impacted the fashion industry today. Their designs will remain an influence on fashion for years to come. One such designer is Christian Dior. Dior created a "New Look- in 1947 which revolutionized world fashion. He reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world, and created his name as a symbol of elegance, quality, and modernity. .
Dior was born in Normandy, France on January 21, 1905. He went to school to study political science at Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris in 1920. This was solely because of his parent's insistence. He then was in the military service and served in the French Army from 1927-1928. For some years to follow, Dior was moving around and remained indecisive with what to do with his life. Finally in 1935, Dior moved back to Paris. He started to sell sketches of his for a living. He was most successful with his hat designs at first. However, he focused most of his time on doing sketches of dresses. In 1938 Robert Piguet hired him as a design assistant. After the war ended he began working for Lucien Lelong, a larger design house. .
Christian Dior had always dreamed of starting his own fashion house. One day, while he was still working for Piguet, Dior and his friend Pierre Colle were walking in Paris down Avenue Montaigne. They passed two small and contiguous town houses, numbers 28 and 30. He turned to his friend and said, "Pierre, if ever our project sees the light of day, I'm going to move in here and nowhere else."" .
In 1946, a relative of Dior's set up a meeting with him and Marcel Boussac. Boussac was a French textile magnate, and an important businessman in France. He offered to finance the opening of Dior's own couture house. Dior was offered occupancy at a number of different houses, but none of them seemed right. As Dior began to worry, fate played out when one day someone said to him, "I know that you are looking for a space, so why don't you go by the Avenue Montaigne.
