02008cam a2200373 i 4500 373057623 TxAuBib 20190402120000.0 181219s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781781453131 14.95 1781453136 14.95 eng rda TxAuBib rda Flavell, Liz. Biographic Dior [BOOK] / Liz Flavell; design and illustration by Matt Carr & Robin Shields. East Sussex, UK : Ammonite Press, 2017. 95 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Biographic Includes index. Many people know that Christian Dior (1905-1957) was a French fashion designer, the founder of the world famous fashion house that carries his name. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he once owned a small art gallery selling work by artists including Pablo Picasso; that he employed a young Yves Saint Laurent as his assistant; that he included a garment in each of his shows named after his home town of Granville; and that he had a superstitious belief in the number 8, with the house of Dior being housed over 8 workshops in an 8-storey building in the 8th district of Paris. This book presents a visual catwalk through his life and work, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the genius behind the garments. Provided by publisher. 20190402. Dior, Christian. Fashion designers France Biography. Fashion France History 20th century. Biographies. Carr, Matt, 1971-, illustrator. Shields, Robin, (illustrator), illustrator. Biographic.