Christian Dior's Timeline: Life, Photos, and Key Events

from his father

where he and a friend sold art by the likes of Pablo Picasso

employed by Robert Piguet who gave him the opportunity to design for three Piguet collections

where he and Balmain were the primary designers. For the duration of World War II, Dior, as an employee of Lelong – who labored to preserve the French fashion industry during wartime for economic and artistic reasons – in attempts to preserve the fashion industry during the war, Dior designed dresses for the wives of Nazi officers and French collaborators

to design for Philippe et Gaston, a Paris fashion house

with Boussac's backing

(literally the botanical term corolla or circlet of flower petals in English), but the phrase New Look was coined for it by Carmel Snow, the editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar