Readers of The Atlantic Monthly magazine get a preview of the new biography of fashion icon Christian Dior in Benjamin Schwartz's excellent article ("Couture Clash") on the competing visions of style by Dior and Christobal Balenciaga."The new edition of Marie-France Pochna's intelligently illustrated, thorough 1993 biography, Christian Dior, draws heavily on the designer's own memoirs to elucidate two contradictory facets of his short careeer (he died just 10 years after the debut of the New Look):in his almost religious dedication to nurturing the then already antiquated craft of Parisian dressmaking; and his revolutionary creation of an international luxury-goods empire comprising lucrative licensing, a global chain of boutiques, and ready-to-wear lines."
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