MixedThe Financial Times (UK)Although Miss Dior describes the \'backdrop of moral ambiguity\' during the postwar years, the book sheds little light on Christian Dior’s position ... a record of two different but coexisting stories: the unspeakable trauma suffered by individual Resistance fighters such as Catherine and the unrepentant continuation of life and business of many couturiers, including her brother ... At times, as Picardie jumps from the desperation of Ravensbrück to the glamour of Parisian high-society salons, the author seems to lose her plot. Is this a book about Catherine and her story of courage, or is it an account of Christian’s career and the business of couture under and after occupation? The two stories seem incompatible but Miss Dior’s success is in capturing the absurdity of their coexistence.
