Annie Goetzinger

"The girl in Dior is Clara, a freshly hired chronicler, fan of fashion, and our guide in the busy corridors of the brand new house of Christian Dior. It's February 12, 1947, and the craeme de la craeme of Paris haute couture is flocking to the momentous event of Dior's first show. In a flurry of corolla shaped skirts, the parade of models file down the runway. The audience is mesmerized: it's a triumph. Carmel Snow of Harper's Bazaar cries out: 'It's quite a revolution; your dresses have such a new look!' Dior's career is launched and Clara's story begins. Soon, she is picked by Dior himself to be his model"--

Girl in Dior

Movie "Colette" coming in September starring Keira Knightley! From her marriage at the age of 20, until her divorce, this snapshot of Colette's life focuses on her formative years. Incredibly complex, powerfully determined, truly gifted, Colette challenged herself to reinvent her life and assert herself as a free woman. In her day, her behavior scandalized and vexed the establishment. But in the end, she helped to free women in their thinking and became member and then president of France's prestigious Académie Goncourt, among many other honors as one of France's preeminent authors. For mature readers.

The Provocative Colette

Rodolphe

"Initially published in French as Marie Antoinette, la reine fantome."

Marie Antoinette, Phantom Queen

« Une fresque pleine de légèreté et de classe. » (Le Figaro.) « Pour redécouvrir les secrets d'une maison qui, en vingt-deux collections, changea le visage de la mode française. » (Elle.) « Un vrai documentaire sur les coulisses de la haute couture, une immersion dans la somptuosité des étoffes, la beauté des robes, l'élégance des silhouettes féminines, que la dessinatrice rend de façon remarquable. » (Télérama.)

Jeune fille en Dior

La Jeune fille en Dior, c’est Clara, une jeune chroniqueuse férue de mode, et notre guide dans les coulisses de la maison Dior... Le 12 février 1947, le Tout-Paris se presse avenue Montaigne pour assister au premier défilé d’un certain Christian Dior. Dans une envolée de longues jupes corolles, le défilé commence. L’assistance est médusée : c’est un triomphe ! Carmel Snow, du Harper’s Bazar, s’écrie : "It’s quite a revolution, your dresses have such a new look !" En un mot, la carrière du couturier est lancée, et l’histoire de Clara commence.

During the 1930s, Maud, an artist, discovers she has a psychic gift. The first signs manifest themselves in the royal gardens of the Trianon where gradually she understands that a woman from the beyond is attempting to communicate with her. The revelation is beyond belief: it is the ghost of Marie Antoinette appearing to her to share a terrible secret that has tormented her for centuries. After being guillotined, the Queen is said to have been thrown into a common grave but then exhumed and buried with her husband, Louis XVI, in the Saint-Denis basilica. Yet the ghost tells Maud that her remains are still in the pit on which a chapel stands today. The queen asks Maud to move her body to the right place so she can finally find peace and no longer haunt people. Part fantastic ghost story, part biography, this is a delicious beautifully illustrated look into French revolutionary history by the artist of the bestselling 'Girl in Dior.'

Annie Goetzinger

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