Explore the elegant and innovative world of iconic fashion designer' Christian Dior ‘s esteemed house. By Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni
Monsieur Dior: Once Upon A Time is an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the ten years Christian Dior ran his esteemed house. As women were starved for glamour following World War II, Dior’s New Look was revolutionary in bringing femininity back to fashion with a bold use of fabric and silhouetted lines.
In the short time he ran the house, Dior rose to superstardom and managed to expand his empire to perfumes, jewelry, and hosiery while opening boutiques all over the world.
Author Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni interviewed dozens of people who had a direct relationship with the fashion designer such as Jacqueline de Ribes, Olivia de Havilland, John Fairchild, Pierre Cardin, Victoire Doutreleau, and many others, including his vendeuses or saleswomen, society clients, models, and muses, giving readers unique intimate insight into how this captivating house operated.
With dazzling images by photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lord Snowdon, and Willy Maywald, as well as neverbefore- seen materials from the Dior Archives, this account is a fresh and surprising view into the House of Dior and life of its brilliant founder.
Monsieur Dior: Once Upon A Time is elegantly presented in a Dior grey box with silver tissue paper and a grosgrain bookmark.
Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni is a Paris-based British writer and journalist who specializes in fashion, interiors, and lifestyle. She is the author of Sam Spiegel, The Biography of A Hollywood Legend; A Portfolio: Tino Zervudachi, published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2012, and Dior Glamour by Mark Shaw in 2013.
Hardcover
252 Pages
7" x 7.75"
ISBN: 978-1-938461-14-9
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POINTED LEAF PRESS BRAND: Founded in 2002 by Suzanne Slesin. As a publisher of high quality, photography-driven monographs on personalities (some well-known, some undiscovered) from the worlds of design, architecture, and fashion, we have made it our goal to create books that stand out, both for their unique content and matchless design quality. A book from Pointed Leaf Press is a book like none other. They are visual biographies that envelop and expound—open any of our titles and become immersed in a world re-created on page in extraordinary depth and detail. Intensely researched and illuminated by new photography, each monograph instantly establishes itself as the subject’s authoritative source-book. Informative and always visually engaging, Pointed Leaf Press books are direct links to the ideas, processes, and stories of the designers you love. Each book is a wonderful gift and a great addition to a personal library.
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Suzanne Slesin, Publisher and Editorial Director of Pointed Leaf Press, majored in the History of Art at Wellesley College and graduated from the Courtauld Institute of London University with a MA in the History of Art. She has been involved in the field of home design as an international journalist since the 1970s.
Slesin has been Managing Editor of Industrial Design magazine, Director of Communications and Advertising Manager at Knoll, an editor and writer at New York and Esquire magazines, and for 17 years, was an editor and reporter for the Home Section of The New York Times.
In 1995, she became the Design Editor of the relaunched House & Garden, then Editor-in-Chief of HomeStyle, and in 2003, the Editor of O at Home, an Oprah magazine. Slesin has co-authored over 20 books on design beginning with High-Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book for the Home (with Joan Kron in 1978) and was the co-author, starting in 1982, of the innovative and trendsetting Style Books that included French Style, English Style, Caribbean Style, and Japanese Style, all published by Clarkson Potter, a division of Random House.
In 2002, Slesin founded Pointed Leaf Press to publish high quality, photography-driven monographs based on personalities in the worlds of interior design, architecture, art, photography, gardens, and fashion, and collecting. The company’s first publication was Over the Top: Helena Rubinstein, Extraordinary Style, Beauty, Art, Fashion, and Design, an illustrated biography based on archival materials, which she researched and wrote, mining her connection as the cosmetics tycoon’s step-granddaughter. Slesin is a member of the Design and Acquisitions Committee at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY and is a member of the board of LongHouse Reserve, in East Hampton, NY.
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Frederico Farina has been the creative director of Pointed Leaf Press since 2012. Previously, he was a VP creative director at Ann Taylor and Ann Taylor LOFT, the VP creative director at the advertising agency of FCB New York, as well as the director of visual communications at Cole Haan. Other fashion clients in his past include Abercrombie & Fitch, Giorgio Armani, D&G, Bottega Veneta, and Versace.
Farina began his career designing for various magazines, including Metropolitan Home, TopModel, and Mirabella.