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- Title
'Does Your Highness feel like a gold person or a silver one?' Princess Margaret and Dior.
- Authors
Behlen, Beatrice
- Abstract
This article charts the relationship between Princess Margaret (1930-2002) and the House of Dior. Her relatively early adoption of the New Look accelerated her rise to a major fashion icon. Choosing a Dior ball gown for her official twenty-first birthday photographs cemented her image as the archetypal princess. Unusually for a member of the British royal family, Princess Margaret visited the French fashion house in Paris in 1949, 1951 and 1959, ordering couture gowns on several occasions, and also attended Dior fashion shows at Blenheim Palace in 1952, 1954 and 1958. While the close association between the Princess and Christian Dior (1905-1957) was relatively short-lived, it was mutually beneficial and important to the public image of both royal patron and couturier.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; MARGARET, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002; DIOR, Christian, 1905-1957; 20TH century fashion; HISTORY of clothing &; dress -- 20th century; FRENCH influences on fashion; HARTNELL, Norman; MOLYNEUX, Edward Henry, 1891-1974; DESSES, Jean; PRINCESSES
- Publication
Costume: Journal of the Costume Society, 2012, Vol 46, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0590-8876
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1179/174963012X13192178400119