Christian Dior was a French designer whose legacy lasted for over 60 years and is still continuing and growing now.  He founded his own fashion house in 1946 after joining the fashion house of Lucien Lelong as a primary designer.  In 1950 the company began licensing Dior’s name and two years later opened a boutique in London.  In 1957 Christian Dior past away with a heart attack.   This left the company to find a new lead for the fashion house.  They approached Yves Saint Laurent who then c...

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Lacriox was born in southern France.  At a young age he began sketching historical costumes and fashions.  Around 1974, he met Jean-Jacques Picart.  Picart was press attached for several haute couture houses and provided aid in gaining Christian a job working at Hermes in 1978, where he worked on colour schemes and execution of designs, and then Guy Paulin in 1980.  After graduating from the Ecole du Louvre, he started working at Jean Patou, where he worked until 1987.  With help from Jean-Ja...
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Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was born in France 1883.  She was put into an orphanage at the age of 9 with her older sister.  Gabrielle got the name CoCo when she would sing a song called CoCo in a saloon to a bunch of rich and inconsiderate men.  She had another job to earn her poor income.  She would do clothing alterations and repairs for the wealthy.  This is how she first noticed her talent.  CoCo headed to the fashion capital of the world Paris to improve and change her life.  She started by...
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