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Marie-France Pochna is the author of the Cristian Dior biography now as an audio book. Joanna Savil has translated the book from French.

First some links to Christian Dior Cruise 2009 Collection and other interesting information about the fashion icon...

StarGazing at the Christian Dior Cruise Collection - The 2009 Christian Dior Cruise Collection preview was the hot place to be in New York City last week. Many fashion heavy hitters showed up including Jennifer Lopez, Charlize Theron, Christina Aguilera and Anna Wintour and Rachel Zoe ...

Icons of Design - Christian Dior - Christian Dior began his fashion career in 1947. Realizing the world was ready for something new after the war he delivered his “New Look” which featured soft, rounded shoulders and cinched waists with flowing skirts. ...

Christian Dior Resort Part 2 - Model: Sheila Marquez Model: Yana Karpova Model: Linda Vojtova Model: Hye Park Model: Michelle Alves Model: Cecilia Mendez Model: Drielly Oliverira Model: Anna Kuchkina Model: Alek Wek Model: Sasha Pivovrova Model: Siri Tollerød.

Christian Dior unveiling phone this Friday? - We've got virtually no background on the rather in-your-face designer handset we see depicted here, but we're told that it's a Christian Dior-branded phone (and remote control of some sort, apparently) embedded with Swarovski crystals. ...

Cruise 2009 Collection: Christian Dior - Christian Dior's John Galliano presented a brightly themed Cruise 2009 collection last week. He successfully pulled a colorful show that unites different elements of color, style, detail and fabrics that reflects the 60's trends with a ...

Christian Dior Cruise 2009 Collection - Christian Dior sent the Cruise 2009 Collection down the runway two days ago in New York City, but the event was more about the what celebrities were wearing than the clothes on the models. Continue reading Christian Dior Cruise 2009 ...

Christian Dior's career, a veritable fairy tale, is set in a rich tapestry of Paris cultural life before, during, and after the war. Much of Dior's daily inspiration emanated from the world of the intellectual and artistic elite, in which he moved with such people as Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Henry Sauguet,  Jean Cocteau, and Raoul Dufy.

Born at the end of an era in which luxury seemed reserved only for the happy few, Dior again revolutionized the world of fashion by introducing, in the early 1950s, "ready-to-wear" in his Dior Boutique. Until then, couturiers had worked essentially if not exclusively for the very rich and famous. With his boutique, Dior brought high fashion to the world at large.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the "New Look," New York's Metropolitan Museum mounted a major Dior retrospective in the winter of 1996-97.

Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.