Courtesan and Muse, Or A Greater Designer Than Coco Chanel?

You might not be interested in fashion or fashion muses. But don’t let that put you off today’s post. This is the story of a research journey that led me around the world, a story of paying attention to the smallest clues, of finding a trail of evidence that’s somehow been ignored by almost every person who’s ever written Christian Dior’s so-called muse Mizza Bricard into a book or an article. Or perhaps the evidence wasn’t ignored – perhaps those writers didn’t bother to look for it. After all,...