On February 12, 1947, a new couturier named Christian Dior presented his first show to the press. In an elegant salon on the Avenue Montaigne, a model sauntered out wearing a calf-grazing skirt ...

The French designer Christian Dior is credited with changing the face of fashion in the years immediately following the end of World War Two. His exquisite gowns were modelled on catwalks in Paris ...