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   Ginette Dior (2 August 1917 – 17 June 2008), better known as Catherine Dior, was a French Resistance fighter during World War II. Involved with the Franco-Polish intelligence unit F2 from November 1941, she was arrested in Paris in July 1944 by the Gestapo, then tortured and deported to the Ravensbrück women concentration camp.

   • Other names: Miss Dior

   • Born: Ginette Dior, 2 August 1917, Granville, Manche, France

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3. www.vogue.com › article › the-true-story-ofThe True Story of Catherine Dior, Christian Dior’s Renegade ...

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   Feb 15, 2024 · But, there’s one character who quickly emerges as one of the most fascinating: Christian Dior’s heroic younger sister, Catherine Dior. We meet her in 1943, three years into the Nazi occupation ...

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   Jul 26, 2018 · Learn how Catherine Dior, the sister of the famous couturier Christian Dior, became a courageous and successful Resistance fighter and a cut-flowers broker in the 1940s and 1950s. Discover her family background, her love of flowers, and her role in the Dior legacy.

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     "It’s so important that women like this are not forgotten from history," declares Maisie Williams about her role as unsung hero Catherine Dior in the Apple TV+ prestige drama “The New Look.” Catherine was best known as a French Resistance fighter during World War II and who is often attributed as her brother Christian’s muse

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   Aug 20, 2021 · On paper, Catherine Dior is an unlikely heroine. Born into the prosperous Dior family in 1917, the youngest of five children, she seemed destined for a decorative existence.

8. www.vogue.co.uk › article › who-is-catherine-diorWho Is Catherine Dior? The True Story Of Christian Dior’s ...

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   Feb 15, 2024 · But, there’s one character who quickly emerges as one of the most fascinating: Christian Dior’s heroic younger sister, Catherine Dior. We meet her in 1943, three years into the Nazi occupation of Paris, as she, embodied by Maisie Williams, is accosted by officers who demand to see her papers. When she flees, they chase her and pin her ...

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   Who is Catherine Dior?

   • But, there’s one character who quickly emerges as one of the most fascinating: Christian Dior’s heroic younger sister, Catherine Dior. We meet her in 1943, three years into the Nazi occupation of Paris, as she, embodied by Maisie Williams, is accosted by officers who demand to see her papers.

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   How did Catherine Dior make money?

   • The teenage Catherine moved to Paris to live with Christian, making money by selling hats and gloves, until the Second World War broke out and she headed to the south of France and grew vegetables to sell. Was Catherine Dior involved in the French Resistance? Catherine Dior (Maisie Williams) in The New Look. (Picture by Apple TV+)

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   Did Catherine Dior get a name for her perfume?

   • According to the legend, Catherine Dior suddenly entered the room while her brother Christian was brainstorming names for the fragrance with his muse Mitzah Bricard; "Ah, here's Miss Dior!", Bricard said, and Christian allegedly replied, "Miss Dior: now there's a name for my perfume!"

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   What did Catherine Dior do for a living?

   • She established a successful flower-selling business in Paris and a rose farm in Provence, used to make fragrances. By her side in these ventures was the man she fell in love with during the war, Hervé des Charbonneries, and his children, whom she raised as her own. Was Miss Dior perfume named after Catherine Dior?

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10. www.elle.com › culture › movies-tvThe True Story of Catherine Dior, Christian Dior's Sister, in ...

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    Feb 14, 2024 · This is the “Miss Dior” The New Look aims to spotlight—in some respects, for the first time ever—as embodied by former Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams. The actress, 26, is the same ...

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    Feb 14, 2024 · Catherine Dior was the youngest sister of Christian Dior, the founder of one of the top fashion houses in the world. She survived the Second World War as a Resistance fighter and a prisoner of war, and later became the moral heir of her brother's empire.