Everything you need to know about Dior’s most iconic handbags.
gave the world his Corelle line in 1947, he was busy accessorizing his swan-neck, wasp-waist mannequins with satin clutches and kiss-lock leather satchels. To provide a timeline, the house of Dior was technically founded on Paris’s tony Avenue Montaigne in 1946, and the maison’s fashion history-making New Look line was presented in 1947.
’s Costume Institute houses several purses in its archive that date back to the early 1950s, and in them, the stamp “Miss Dior” appears—one of Dior’s secondary lines likely produced under a license.But the cult of Dior handbags as we know it now—the Lady bag, the Saddle bag, the Book tote—should really be traced to Marc Bohan, the second designer to take the helm of the fashion house following Monsieur Dior’s untimely death from a heart attack in 1957.
Since the swish of the New Look skirt was heard around the world in 1947, the Dior maison has given us plenty to talk about. The most famous Dior handbag histories, below.
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