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What was Christian Dior most known for?

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Known particularly for the "New Look" of 1947 (a voluptuous style with narrow shoulders constricted waist emphasized bust and long wide skirt) his designs were nonfunctional but enormously popular as women abandoned wartime austerity in the post-World War II era. He created the short waistless sack dress (early 1950s) and introduced the A-line dress (1956).

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