Hollywood’s pioneer of androgyny inspires label’s latest catwalk show at New York’s Brooklyn MuseumChristian Dior probably did more than anyone in the history of fashion to make an hourglass figure a symbol of the perfect woman. The tiny waists and exaggerated curves of his 1947 New Look collection were not just a fashion sensation but a cultural one. Dior cut a visual template for femininity that ruled unchallenged for the second half of the 20th century.So Marlene Dietrich, the pioneer of... Read this story
