Christian Dior Destiny

Author : Marie-France Pochna
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 208151401X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Dior: Destiny written by Marie-France Pochna and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Dior’s official biography reveals the secretive and surprising man who revolutionized fashion, with new insight on his spirituality and relationships and a contemporary perspective on his legacy. In 1947, when Christian Dior’s model spun her wasp-waisted skirt and tipped a hat over one eye, the iconic designer became an instant celebrity. His groundbreaking New Look was quintessentially Parisian—the perfect combi­nation of fanciful and elegant that glorified the female form and seduced his international clientele. Yet it was by mere chance that Dior—hapless in the face of personal and professional tragedy—met a friendly priest who helped him to rebuild his faith and to find the strength to chart his glorious destiny. He went on to upend the downtrodden postwar era with his joie de vivre and his pursuit of a single goal: to make women “not only more beautiful, but happier” through the proportions of his marvelous designs and a color palette that reflected the Parisian sky. Today, the legacy of this witty yet staunchly private man shines on as his intuitive creativity continues to inspire the House of Dior’s designers to reinvent the woman of tomorrow.

Author : Marie-France Pochna
Publisher : Abrams Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Dior: the Biography written by Marie-France Pochna and published by Abrams Press. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Christian Dior caused a worldwide sensation in 1947, in a Paris still groping to recover from the devastation of wartime occupation. Reintroducing the flowing, ankle-length skirt, Dior gave women back their long-lost sense of freedom, femininity, and joie de vivre. Diorʼs collection with its pinched waste and generous folds of fabric was dubbed the ʻNew Lookʼ by the press, and he was crowned ʻThe King of Fashionʼ. He immediately re-established Paris as the centre of the fashion world and for the next thirty years the House of Dior played host to aristocracy, stars of stage and film, and glitterati from around the world. The Duchess of Windsor, Olivia de Havilland, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Ingrid Bergman were just a few of the famous names that graced its corridors. Diorʼs daily inspiration emanated from the world of the intellectual and artistic elite, in which he moved with such people as Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Henry Suguet, Jean Cocteau and Raoul Dufy. With elegance, precision, and impeccable research, Marie-France Pochna recreates this one-of-a-kind world of glamour and situates Diorʼs fairy-tale career in the rich tapestry of Paris cultural life."--Pubisher description.

Author : Janice Robinson-Delaney
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456846264
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deleted Destiny written by Janice Robinson-Delaney and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deleted Destiny hopefully reflects my love of a good mystery and a story well told, I have been asked what is it about, what I think is my best answer is this one, "a contemporary girl in a contemporary world doing contemporary things".

Author : Norm Wise
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1606935364
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Certain Destiny written by Norm Wise and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CERTAIN DESTINY Is the utterly captivating story of frustrated love and growing hatred, generated between a concubine mother and her bastard son. He inherits vast wealth and power, along with the probability his father, who died after conceiving him, could have passed on the degenerative disease Huntington's chorea. This is the underlying cause of a family saga that spans the early settlement of New Guinea, and Malibu, California; where the gang rape of a black maid is the catalyst of CERTAIN DESTINY, so wrought with intrigue it captivates the reader to the point...You will be challenged between choosing sleep, or reading just one more chapter before closing the book.

Author : Susie Larimore
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512745960
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caroline' S Destiny written by Susie Larimore and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals itself bit by bit as you read further into each chapter. The story gracefully weaves humor, hope and inspiration into the pages as it gives a new and deeper level of a coming of age story. A story of a young girl wanting desperately to be loved.

Author : Jerome Goddard
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595198961
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Well of Destiny written by Jerome Goddard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Jeffrey Mann, disillusioned by the South, soured on marriage, returns to Mississippi to investigate a lethal disease outbreak. The disease – mosquito-carried encephalitis – suddenly emerges in late July in the southeastern corner of the State and health department officials scramble to contain the outbreak. The new form of encephalitis is really strange (having a mixture of characteristics), making genetic engineering or bioterrorism real possibilities. The Centers for Disease Control in Ft. Collins sends the 39 year-old Dr. Mann (specialist in infectious disease outbreaks) to Mississippi to aid local Health Department officials in handling the outbreak. He hates going back because he was deeply offended during adolescence by the rigid, prim and proper South and pressures to conform. During his investigation, Dr. Mann discovers that infectious disease outbreaks are bad enough by themselves, but immensely more serious when intentionally spread.

Author : Kayode Odumade
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503594343
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destiny of a Black Queen written by Kayode Odumade and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice is a product of love has no bounds. Her white father was the heir to the throne, but he fell in love at first sight with a beautiful black woman in an unusual place and during unusual times. The love relationship between her parents was so strong that traditions, culture, race, and death couldnt break it. Theirs was a love relationship made outside the four corners of this world. However, two of the only three people in the world who truly loved Alice died. Alice was going to change traditions that had lived with people for over hundreds of years, and these people didnt want change. So this made Alice grow in a world that those closest to her constantly planned betrayals, manipulations, and schemes against her. Her only living true love would be caught in the web of her adversary, but unknowingly, every of their evil plans moved her one step toward the fulfillment of her destiny.

Author : Cynthia Travers
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465331921
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing with Destiny written by Cynthia Travers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-08-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Kristina Malet Stafford met up with Carl Alan Webber at the Darden School of Business during the 1970's, they had nothing in common but the pursuit of an MBA. She was a sophisticated big city child of privilege and he was a home grown mid west farm boy. Neither could have either imagined or believed the course their lives would take. Join them in the roller coaster ride that fate planned for them over the years. Share their triumphs and tribulations as destiny drags them throughout the US and Europe, through corporate boardrooms and parenthood, through infidelities and death ... until it brings them to a ending that is both sad yet inevitably joyous

Author : Victoria Saccenti
Publisher : Victoria Saccenti
ISBN 13 : 0998950408
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destiny's Series Box Set: The Complete Trilogy written by Victoria Saccenti and published by Victoria Saccenti. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their future is shining with hope…but Fate casts a long, long shadow. DESTINY’S PLAN Matthew Buchanan’s bus seat mate is more than something pretty to look at before he ships out for ’Nam. Deep in Raquelita Muro’s sad, whisky-colored eyes is a dream, and they promise to exchange letters in secret. But Fate will push two lonely hearts to the breaking point. Perhaps beyond any hope of healing… DESTINY’S CHOICE Four years in Spain was supposed to give Marité Muro some perspective. But she’s come home knowing exactly what she wants. Brian MacKay. To Brian, Marité is ripe, tempting, forbidden fruit, yet she challenges his resolve until, in a moment of weakness, his wartime demons slip free. And the past threatens to destroy their love. DESTINY’S WAY When Brian’s PTSD-fueled demons flare dangerously out of control, he packs his crippling load of baggage and leaves, convinced Marité is better off with anyone else—even his bitterest rival. Anger tears at Marité’s heart, especially at herself for realizing too late she should have fought harder for the only man she’ll ever love. But Fate has a few more tricks to play. And one tiny, fragile miracle with the power to heal them. If it lives to draw breath…

Author : Victoria Saccenti
Publisher : Victoria Saccenti
ISBN 13 : 099641696X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destiny's Way written by Victoria Saccenti and published by Victoria Saccenti. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One disastrous night rips the lovers apart. All is lost, until Fate intervenes. Brian’s love for Marité burns with the heat of an eternal flame. However, when Michael makes a play for her, Brian’s PTSD-fueled demons convince him Marité’s better off with someone younger, less damaged—anyone—but him. Anger tears at Marité’s heart. Anger at Brian for giving up so easily. At Michael for trying to reignite an old infatuation. Mostly, anger at herself for her part in the debacle and for not having the strength to fight for the only man she’ll ever love. But Destiny is not quite finished with the lovers…