In 1946, when Christian Dior saw the four-storey hôtel particulier at 30 Avenue Montaigne, built in the 1860s for a son of Napoleon, he knew he had to have it for his new fashion house. It was elegant ...
On February 12, 1947, a new couturier named Christian Dior presented his first show to ... when French businessman Bernard Arnault bought the fashion house, it remained a sleeping beauty until ...