CHRISTIAN DIOR BIOGRAPHY Featured in The New York Sun

Marie-France Pochna's acclaimed biography of fashion icon Christian Dior is featured in The New York Sun style section today: "The importance of the iconic silhouette and the lasting impact of the man who created it were captured brilliantly by biographer Marie-France Pochna in her 1996 "Christian Dior: The Man Who Made the World Look New." The book, which was out of print, has just been republished by Overlook Press with a new name — Christian Dior: The Biography — and, indeed, a new look. This time around, the book is a glossy, elegant number that nevertheless maintains the integrity and serious reporting of the original."

Dior Celebrates Marie-France Pochna's Biography of the Fashion Icon

Marie-France Pochna (center) was honored at the Christian Dior Boutique in Manhattan this week on the occasion of the publication of Christian Dior: The Biography. Joined by literary agent George Borchardt (left) and fashion historian Valerie Steele (right), Ms. Pocha gave a stirring tribute to the creator of the New Look and founder of one the world's greatest couture houses.

The Day DIOR Changed Everything

Sherryl Connelly of The New York Daily News looks at Christian Dior: The Biography, by Marie-France Pochna, coming from Overlook this month: "It took one swish of the hips and America was won, noted the writer Colette. In her marvelously observed biography, Christian Dior, French luxury-goods specialist Marie-France Pochna traces the path this son of a fertilizer magnate took to rescue fashion from what appeared to be a permanent state of the doldrums."

New Biography of CHRISTIAN DIOR Featured in The Atlantic

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."