Dior Untold Podcast
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you're in told the first podcast series that takes us behind the scenes of the mason Dior and its unique savoir faire an immersion into the fascinating world of its creator and his innermost inspirations. Episode two. And women created. Dior, christian Dior brought magic and elegance to women all over the world. But few of them held a special place in his closely guarded heart. The wellspring of his inspiration by diving into the personal story of the designer's life, we will discover the women who set the path for him and became the houses. Trailblazers enjoy learning about the various women who made up this constellation of stars and enabled the mason Dior to shine. Yeah, the property 1919 Grandview France is emerging from the Great War and this town in Normandy has organized a charity fair to raise money for the soldiers, smiling families dressed in their sunday best stroll leisurely among flower bedecked stalls all around fairgoers are taking potshots at an effigy of the Kaiser at the shooting range, are fishing for wooden ducks or gaily spinning the wheel of fortune. The country is picking itself up again after the years of darkness, and everyone desperately aches for a better future. A tall, slender boy with a wise face stands out from the crowd. He is dressed in bohemian guard for the day. His name is Christian Dior. He's 14 years old. And today the fares fortune teller has enlisted his help. The basket tied around his neck with ribbons, holds lucky charms that he is selling to those seeking to ward off misfortune. As evening falls in, the pleasure seekers disperse, he returns to the clairvoyance caravan. Yeah, climbing. It's few steps, he opens the door to a mysterious shadowy interior, lit only by the flickering light of candelabras. The figure of a bohemian woman can just about be made out in a chiaroscuro among the billowing incense, with a lined face and cold darkened eyes. This ageless woman sits in front of her card table. Mhm. A scarf tied around her head and a shawl over her shoulders to thank him for his services. The soothsayer offers to tell the young man's future by reading his poem. Young christian stretches out his hand above her crystal ball and tarot deck. You will find yourself without money, The fortune teller tells him while examining the lines of his hand. But women will bring you luck and through them. You will achieve great success. His heart pounding christian gently closes his hand as if it contains the most precious of treasures. Mhm. Yeah, it is night as he makes his way back to the family villa harems high above the town on the cliffs facing out over the english channel. All right, christian Dior looks up at the twinkling heavens. Now he knows that women will come into his life like a constellation of stars and that he must let himself be guided by their lights to fulfill his destiny. He also trusts that fate will send him signs along the way and he will always call upon these intuitive women to interpret them throughout his life, Christian Dior would put his faith in clairvoyance. In adulthood he sought twice weekly readings with his favorite fortune teller Madame Dora and drew great comfort from her support both in matters of the heart and for important career decisions. Madeline his beloved mother the load star of christian yours life is named Madeleine, elegant, slender, always graceful. This well to do. Woman has five Children with her industrialist husband Morris your and raises them with discipline. Christian is the second child and the one who assist her with her life's work creating an english country garden in the weather beaten grounds of their rooms. Mhm. Over time, despite the gusting winds and intemperate climate, madeleine Dior manages to plant geraniums, roses and jasmine that blossom under her green fingers like exotic plants. Despite the hostile elements, christian is always at her side absorbing his mother's deep love of flowers and learning the virtues of patients. The Granville garden is an expression of instinct and passion, a celebration of the bonds between mother and son and a feminine flair throughout his life. The artists will return to this intimate experience time and time again. The origins of his designs are here. The corollas of the flowers foreshadow his billowing dresses, their sense murmur, the secret of his perfumes, recalling the rooms in Granville. Christian Dior famously said I have the sweetest and most wonderful memories of it. What can I say? My life, my style, I owe almost everything to its location and its architecture. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, so his tastes and affinities are further homed in paris later on, where his mother, who in his eyes will always epitomize the spirit and elegance of the belle epoque introduces him to the refined craftsmanship of couturier florists and artisans when decorating their apartment in the paris Cottier of lamb yuet madeleine Dior opts for a neo louise 16 style. This opens the door to french neoclassicism, a door that christian Dior will never close again in these ways and many others. His vision and aesthetics are colored by his love for his mother. By the hours spent by her side browsing, the boutiques of paris are tending to the most beautiful flowers in their Granville paradise, February 12, paris is in the grip of a cold snap But undaunted. The capital's most elegant women hurry to 30 Avenue Montana and rushed to the entrance of the Mason Dior, which is about to present its first ever collection. Seeing those 98 dresses on this winter's day sends a seismic shock through the audience. They are a revelation with their wasp style wastes, high busts, softly rounded shoulders and lo hens that hide the legs. They turn all the rules of fashion upside down. Christian Dior has redefined the elegant woman silhouette for years to come. The Catalonia is consigning ration books to the past and hastening in a new era, boldly embracing extravagant frivolous designs that anticipate the boom of the post World War two years. The New Look has arrived and christian Dior is catapulted to international stardom overnight. As these women in their hats and furs climb the stairs at 30 Avenue Montagna, the decor is made up of magnificent floral bouquets. A cloud of unfamiliar scents envelopes them as they stream into the huge white and pearl grey reception room where hostesses spray their wrists with the mysterious floral fragrance that perfumes the air. This is the moment when the celebrity guests and fashionistas of the day. First encounter Miss Dior. Yeah, France's everyday women will discover it a few months later at christmas and embrace it forever. Christian Dior had asked his perfumer paul Vashti to create a scent that smells like love and springtime evoking the gust of freedom that has been sweeping across France since the liberation. A perfume born of a typical evening in Provence with the air lit up by fireflies and also inspired by the roses in the garden of christians childhood home in Granville. A perfume named in honor of the designers beloved sister and her daredevil spirit. Mm. Yeah. Catherine, his heroic sister. If one can like in Christian yours childhood to a treasure island. It's because the other inhabitants of this magical land is Jeanette. She is the youngest child born 12 years after him. And at a time when he's about to enter adolescence, she draws him back to a time of innocence when she appears among the groves in Granville. Everyone else fades into the background of all the flower women that stir the designer's imagination, Jeanette is the spirited, bold and brave one, the one who wasn't afraid to upset the established order and in doing so propels him in life when their father goes bankrupt in the great depression, Jeanette follows christian to the south of France and grows vegetables in their garden to keep them afloat. Yeah. Then the Second World war breaks out and his sister who now prefers to be called by her third christian name. Catherine joins the resistance Under the Alias Caro. She is a member of the F two network, passing information about german troop movements to London and hosting clandestine meetings in christians paris flat on Rue Royal july 6th 1944. And it's a fine day in place du Trocadero. Catherine is here to meet with a fellow resistance fighter but instead she is met by Gestapo officers and arrested. The young woman is taken away as darkness falls and is eventually departed to Ravensbruck concentration camp christian Dior. Here's no news from his sister for a year. He's scared to death. He clings onto the only hope he has several fortune teller's predictions including that of madame delay that she will return body leave. Mhm. April 1945. The telephone rings in the middle of the night, Christians your answers and is told that Katherine is still alive. His beloved sister will be back in Paris within a month. When she arrives, christian can't hold back his tears of joy. Catherine is a national heroine in France and to her big brother, she's the most fearless woman alive. She's an inspiration to him despite her remarkable destiny, receiving the Quad Aguilera 1939 to 45 with and then the legion of honour France's highest civilian award. The unassuming sister continues to share christians love of flowers. She becomes a flower wholesaler in the bustling lay all market when paris finally comes back to life following the liberation and eventually she moves to Provence to live on the domain. Donaghy's near grass.