"Claro"

Design House House of Dior French
Designer Christian Dior French

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With this ensemble, Dior posed a layered repudiation of his own New Look silhouette. The coat, of an exaggerated blockiness, was to be worn over a tubular dress that ignored the waist and barely acknowledged the bust and hipline. A decade after his innovation, Dior was resolutely denouncing the elements that for so long had constituted his work.

"Claro", House of Dior (French, founded 1946), wool, French

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