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The name Dior, which has become synonymous with the art called haute couture, is today known all over the world. But the global success of the brand, which dates back to that February day in 1947 when a fashion revolution called the New Look was born in Paris, fell on a man who was, at best, completely unknown. He was the main architect of this fashion revolution. This man, one of the great creators of modernity, a visionary entrepreneur, a great lover of painting, architecture, photography, but also flowers, a friend of the greatest artists of his time, was very reluctant to appear in public. And it is Christian Dior, a complex personality full of paradoxes, that the author tries to explore. From childhood spent in a clifftop villa on the Brittany coast in Granville to fame on avenue Montaigne. Using a wide range of views on all stages of his life and career that create a true picture of the greatness of this true 'National Monument'. A fashion tailor who made fashion an art less than a decade before his untimely death in 1957 at the age of fifty-two.