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The star

The couturier stumbled on a star on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris on his way to a meeting with Marcel Boussac, who had agreed to finance a fashion house in his name. He saw it as a sign of destiny!

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Christian Dior regularly consulted his fortune teller before making any important decision. As a child, a fortune teller predicted that “women would make his success”. This prediction guided him throughout his life.
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Christian Dior used the star as a subtle motif on his dress Bonne Étoile for the Haute Couture Spring-Summer 1952 collection.

The star sign is regularly used by Christian Dior’s successors. It is as much a tribute to the couturier as it is a lucky charm for every woman who wears this gris-gris.
Since 2017, Maria Grazia Chiuri has given the star an even stronger divinatory dimension. This motif is used both in embroidery and on iconic products.

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Featuring a unique scenographic narrative, La Galerie Dior embodies the spirit of Parisian Haute Couture while perpetuating the memory of this historic address.

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Dior's Lucky Star
“Fashion designers offer one of the last refuges of the marvelous. They are, in a way, the masters of dreams...”
Christian Dior, Dior by Dior, 1958
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History of the house Christian Dior

The richness of the House through the work of Christian Dior and his successors.

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“What can I tell you of my house? How can one speak of the present and what one lives for? My firm is, in fact, the whole of my life.”
Christian Dior, Talking About Fashion, 1954
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30 Avenue Montaigne

Enter the 30 Avenue Montaigne, which Christian Dior compared to a beehive and where the Dior myth was born 75 years ago!

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The beginning of Dior at 30 Avenue Montaigne
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