Pierre Balmain worked with this man in the early '40s, then became his rival in postwar fashion
[DOC] [TLE] Christian Dior / - Design/Designer Information [PAR] He also defined a new business model in the post-war fashion industry by ... the 
late 1940s and 1950s, CHRISTIAN DIOR (1905 to 1957) dominated fashion after 
... Dior longed to become an architect but, at his father's insistence, he enrolled at 
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