Discovering Catherine Dior

It would have been Catherine (Ginette) Dior’s 107th birthday last month and, by sheer coincidence, I also had the opportunity last month to talk about Catherine to a group of people participating in Dressed: The School of Fashion, an offshoot of my favourite fashion podcast. So I thought why not take a look at her extraordinary life in more detail here.

My regular readers will remember Catherine Dior as a character in my novel, The Paris Secret. But who was she really, and why do so few people kn...