Christian Dior'un "Miss Dior" parfümünü kardeşine ithaf ettiğini biliyorsunuzdur.
Matmazel Dior'u bir modacının her daim şık, narin, zarif, hatta belki biraz kırılgan kardeşi olarak hayal etmiştim ama hanımefendi şeref madalyalı bir savaş kahramanıymış meğer, hikayesi için buyrun:
"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. Dior was subsequently
forced to work in the
Torgau military prison, in the
Buchenwald's satellite camp of
Abberode, and finally in a factory near
Leipzig. After her release in April 1945, she was awarded several medals of honour for her acts in the Resistance, most notably the
Croix de Guerre, the
King's Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom, and the
Legion of Honour.
After the end of the war, Dior spent the remainder of her life working with flowers: first as a flower trader in Paris, then as a flower farmer in
Provence for the production of
fragrance. She was close to her brother, the well-known
couturier Christian Dior. Launched in 1947, the perfume
Miss Dior is often said to have been named after her by Christian. Catherine Dior helped preserve her brother's legacy after his death in 1957, and she became the honorary president of the
Christian-Dior Museum from 1999 until her death in 2008, aged 90."
Dior'un meşhur "kazayağı" deseni içinde Matmazel Dior ve Miss Dior.