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“Remarkable” ―Hamish Bowles, Vogue

The overdue restoration of Catherine Dior's extraordinary life, from her brother's muse to Holocaust survivor

When the French designer Christian Dior presented his first collection in Paris in 1947, he changed fashion forever. Dior's “New Look” created a striking, romantic vision of femininity, luxury, and grace,…

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My third choice is again a war book. This time it confronts us, from a woman’s side, with the horrors of the German occupation of France in 1940, the sadistic torture of French Resistance fighters, the misery of a woman’s life in a concentration camp, and the problems awaiting those war women who finally make it back to France.

The heroine of this true story is the sister of Christian Dior, Catherine, whose incredible courage takes her through being deliberately half-drowned by the Nazis, half-starved when deported, and finally returned to France, where she slowly recovers, lives quietly in the…

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