Talk:Christian Dior
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[edit] Early Comments
"Christian Dior is a very gay man" - The article doesn't explicitly say who "Raymond" and "François" are. It also says that Raymond should have been Christian's successor because Christian didn't have any children; however, the first paragraph under "History" says that he had three.
As Wikipedia has a world-wide audience can "Stores throughout the country" be replaced by "Stores throughout the US" or even the US reference dropped?
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yea totally agree!
[edit] Article formatting
This page is badly in need of formatting and also becoming more informative. The article barely mentions the fashion it's self and rather only contains biographical details on Christian Dior's life. I'd do it but I wouldn't know where to begin.
[edit] Picture?
Can we do any better with this picture? I'm having a really tough time believing that that's a Dior shoot. (that's putting it mildly. I think it's just some guys fooling around.) posted by 61.7.2.220 (talk)
- Well, it says "small" fashion magazine, which I interpret to be some mag produced at a local design school or something, however the models do look like Dior male models and the suit looks Dior. Are you contesting this, that the suit and the models are not real, or just that it's not a mainstream fashion magazine. I guarantee Vogue is not going to be giving any of their prints to the public domain. If you can do better, go ahead and change it out, otherwise, please leave it.KP Botany 00:02, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Separate page for Fashion
I believe that a separate page for the couture fashion of Christian Dior is needed, possibly linked by /Dior_(fashion)/me 2 i think it needs more formatting and what is in this that shows the prefumes or fashion thats what i think is wrong.
- Agreed. I've moved Parfums Christian Dior to a separate page, and done a preliminary cleanup of this article. But at the moment it seems to be about Hedi Slimane rather than Dior himself, and is deeply confusing. -- TinaSparkle 18:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tip-toe, tip-toe
Ok yeah. Christian Dior was gay. So are most of the men involved with the company today. The article tip-toes around it. That's bullshit.
[edit] After Dior's death
The article doesn't mention that Gianfranco Ferre was the "artistic director" for Dior at least in the early 90's, between Bohan and Galliano.
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Christian Dior.png
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[edit] Plagiarism in the Dior Years section
The following paragraph
<< The New Look was absolutely appropriate for the post-war era. Dior was correct in assuming that people wanted something new after years of war, brutality and hardship. His new look was reminiscent of the Belle Epoque ideal of long skirts, tiny waists and beautiful fabrics that his mother had worn in the early 1900s. Such a traditional concept of femininity also suited the political agenda. Women had been mobilised during the war to work on farms and in factories while the men were away fighting. In peacetime those women were expected to return to passive roles as housewives and mothers, leaving their jobs free for the returning soldiers. The official paradigm of post-war womanhood was a capable, caring housewife who created a happy home for her husband and children. Dior’s “flower women” fitted the bill perfectly.
His couture house was inundated with orders. Rita Hayworth picked out an evening gown for the première of her new movie, Gilda. The ballerina, Margot Fonteyn, bought a suit. Dior put Paris back on the fashion map. The US couture clients came back in force for the autumn 1947 collections and Dior was invited to stage a private presentation of that season’s show for the British royal family in London, although King George V forbade the young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, from wearing the New Look lest it set a bad example at a time when rationing was still in force for the general public.>>
is from <<http://www.designmuseum.org/design/christian-dior>> There's plagiarism in this article. 67.11.171.225 01:35, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] More Plagiarism
Much of the remainder of the article is directly lifted from <<http://www.fashion-forum.org/fashion-designers/christian-dior.html>>
