Miss Dior

'A gripping story in which Justine Picardie brilliantly contrasts the cruel Old World of wartime France with the hopeful New World epitomised by Christian Dior's New Look.'
ANTONIA FRASER

'An incrediible story of courrage, endurace and passion.'
MARIA GRAZIA CHIURI, Creative Director of Dior
'An extraodinary biography . . . in this book it is Catherine's story that shines - the quiet Dior who preferred flowers to fashion, the unsung heroine who survived the abuse of the Third Reich to help liberate France.
SUNDAY TIMES

'Picardie's book is of the moment, celebrating an unsung hero at a time when female influences are earning new acclaim.'
VOGUE
Miss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal, roses and repression, and how the polished surface of fashion conceals hidden depths.
It paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman behind the designer Christian Dior: his...