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Girl in Dior
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Start date
April 25, 2015
Finish date
April 25, 2015

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Shelley
Look at Dior's final ten years through the eyes of Clara, a fashion reporter turned Dior model. The story is slight, but the illustrations are really the whole point of the thing, I think. They are like fashion sketches, and the dresses are just sublime. I almost drooled over some. I did find the American bits interesting--where women complained about his long hemlines and rebelled with scissors and short hemlines. And where one older character complained about the days of corsets being done, an ...more
Isabel
Beautiful illustrations, but I found the story boring and shallow.
Alison
Jul 09, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Lovely illustrations.
Melissa
Dec 21, 2016 rated it it was ok
Beautiful drawings of the clothes. Weirdly disjointed text that skips around with no transitions or emotion.
Leslie
Jan 02, 2015 marked it as to-read
Carly Thompson
Feb 04, 2015 marked it as to-read
Emma
Jun 14, 2016 rated it liked it
Andronike
Jun 18, 2016 marked it as to-read
Shannon
Nov 12, 2016 marked it as to-read