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Girl in Dior
Girl in Dior
Girl in Dior
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Girl in Dior

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In February of 1947, the crème de la crème of Paris haute couture have flocked to see Christian Dior’s debut fashion show. In a flurry of corolla shaped skirts, the parade of models file down the runway and the mesmerized audience declares the show a triumph. When Clara—a freshly hired chronicler and guide to the busy corridors of the brand-new fashion house—is hand-picked by Dior to be a model, she knows her life will never be the same. A biography docudrama that marries fiction with the story of one of the greatest couturiers in history, this work is a breathless and stunning presentation of Christian Dior’s greatest designs, beautifully rendered by bestselling artist Annie Goetzinger.

Editor's Note

The ultimate in French style…

Annie Goetzinger brings Parisian fashion to life with sumptuous art. Her graphic novel recreates the debut of Christian Dior, whose opulent fantasies offer an escape from struggling postwar France.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 1, 2015
ISBN9781561639168
Girl in Dior

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    The writing is simplistic but the art if fabulous.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    How serendipitous it was to read this book at the same time I read Mrs. 'arris Goes to Paris. Both take on Dior and fashion and Paris as they were, and, read together, complement each other like a good wine with a delicious entree. The story is simple: a young poor girl is plucked from the crowd to become a fabulous Dior model. It's the stuff of fairy tales, with the girl sent out into the world of the rich and famous where she finds a suitably rich husband and lives a grand life. But the strength of the book is in the illustrations that make this unusual graphic novel, illustrations of amazing dresses and hats and skirts and hairdos. It's a lovely little peek into a world that doesn't exist any more. And I'm glad I got to visit it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Beautifully drawn, short biography of Christian Dior. Some fiction elements that add to the personal impact, lots of interesting fashion terms and further info in the back. Just a gem.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I don't know anything about Dior except that his dresses are gorgeous; I'm especially in love with his little daytime dresses with jackets. This made all the information in this graphic about the beginning of Dior's breakout collection through the eyes of a new model very new to me and I didn't realize the model was a fictional character until the end of the book which does make the story a little confusing. However, the inside look at the fashion industry after WWII and the early 50s is amazingly eye-opening and so very different from today and yet in regards to the false feminine perception of perfection disturbingly the same. I really enjoyed the look inside this world during this era and would say the book is mostly about the industry and Dior's dresses and influence than about the man himself. However, the book's pi?ce de r?sistance is the breathtaking artwork. An entirely beautiful book which captures the pure brilliant beauty of the dresses and designs in a unique way. The book will be appreciated by all, but somehow I think I missed out a bit by not knowing the subject matter better beforehand. Knowledgable Christian Dior enthusiasts will come away the most inspired from this gorgeous book worthy of adding to any collection.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Delightful.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    boring :-/
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent. An interesting story and very well drawn.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Beautiful illustrations amid a beautiful Cinderella story that every fashionista will love.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Short and rather bland. It reminded me of a graphic novel I read earlier this year that adapted Proust's "In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way" to the point that I looked up the author and artist to see if they were the same. I didn't like that graphic novel, so this wasn't a good thing.

    Light, bland story with no conflict, really... the story, such as it is, follows a fictional young woman who starts out as a fashion journalist, is fired, becomes a model, quits upon marriage, becomes a widow, and then briefly reconnects with Dior just before his death. This summary gives you about the same amount of emotional depth and resonance as this graphic novel does. The protagonist has 2 distinct traits (likes fashion, especially Dior's, and dislikes seeing their modeled garments pawed over by tradesmen), and those aren't even unique in the small cast of characters.

    Dior himself seems like he's supposed to be the focus of this story, but again, it's a very light, very cursory look: he opens his store, and we see a couple of shows, and then... .... .... finally, death by heart attack.

    The more positive comments here praise the art, but it leaves me cold. Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart make a cameo, and I wouldn't have been able to identify them myself. Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth were a little better, but meh. Characters all looked alike, and the art style is as light a touch as the plot: thin lines, washed-out colors... Even when there are some bold reds or violet in use (rare), they don't come off as vivid and striking, which is a particular shame for a book about (sort of) the rise of Dior. A fashion book begs to have art as striking as the clothes, maybe even moreso if you're trying to capture the same spark of seeing Dior's New Look for the first time, or to convey to movement or texture of different fabrics, the nuances of color...

    Also, my main criteria for excellence in graphic novels is: how much does the story told rely on the art to do some heavy lifting? Is it just illustrations of action and who's talking, or are there actions and background events and nuanced body language that really add depth to the characters, the world, the plot, etc? This book does not go beyond simple illustrations. (I did notice, early on, that women at the first show were illustrated to tug down at the skirt hems, but as that was explicitly mentioned in the narration...)

    On the plus side, it was very short, and while nothing about it was amazing or inspiring, nothing in it was especially repulsive (as in, not-reading-another-word, fling the book across the room), either.

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