DIOR - EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR II

DIOR - EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR II

Around 7 years after Dior began working for the magazine he became a design assistant when he was hired by Paris couturier Robert Piguet. Piguet was one of Christians friends who had recently opened his own fashion house. Unfortunately this only lasted one year as the following year world war II began. At this time Dior left his creative skills behind and went into the army as a farmer, helping farmers wife's tend their land.

Dior was released from the army and made his return from the south of France to Paris in 1941. In 1942 he began working for Lucien Lelongs couture fashion house as a primary designer along side Pierre Balmain. During the remaining years of the war Dior helped create designs which dressed both the Nazi officers and French collaborators, this was their way of preserving the fashion industry as well as keeping peace. The reasons behind keeping the fashion industry where both economic and artistic. He was also designing for the wealthiest women in the world.

Lucien Lelongs, 1945

Lucien Lelongs, 1942

Lucien Lelongs, 1946