11/30/2024
Christian Dior Haute Couture, right off the pages of our very own March 1962 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. “Marc Bohan at Dior slings hard leather belts around the hips, half hiding them by long overblouses” writes Bazaar editor Nancy White. Model Mickey Belveger poses in the houndstooth dress for photographer, Hiro in the third photo. The elegance of this dress encapsulates the chic and refined era of 1962 Parisian fashion just before the culture shattering youth-quake of the mid ‘60s. This museum-worthy frock is now available to purchase on our website! ♥️
We’ve included the remainder of the accompanying editorial for those of you who can’t get enough fashion history! 💋
“Hold your breath! Paris insists that you do. For this spring, fashion in France has struck a major, exciting new chord.
Call it The Dominant Third that pretty part of you from shoulder to hip. All the clothes in Paris are designed to flatter this freshly discovered area of attraction. Take a long look at yourself in the mirror. Then take a good look at Paris in these pages. You’ll find the very figure at which to aim.
But note, carefully, that this vital new fashion statistic, the dominant third, demands a vital new posture.
Pull your ribcage up out of the waist. (Slumping has nearly the status of sin, so do hold your breath!) Now the midrif becomes a column that stretches fully controlled - between small, high bosom and slim, trim hips. Most particularly, the dominant third includes the waist as a point of concentration. Always well defined, it may ride high, slide from the hips, or settle— quite naturally-for the middle way. To help you decide which line suits you best, there is a marvelous new battery of belts, all playing up this important ⅓ on fashion’s new scale of values.” Nancy White, Harper’s Bazar, March 1962.
