Rumor has it that the house of Christian Dior only exists because of a psychic. Her name was Madame Delahaye —a mystic so beloved by the designer that he leaned on her for both personal and professional advice (she counseled him against accepting a job at a competing house, thus building his own fashion empire). Delahaye also revealed to him the most auspicious time to begin his very first show: February 12, 1947, at exactly 10:30 a.m., insisting the planets were perfectly aligned.

Monsieur Dior, born January 21, 1905, was an Aquarius sun, Cancer moon, and Scorpio rising—a mix that gave him both the vision to see beyond his time and the emotional depth to create work that truly moved people. At that very show on February 12, 1947, he did just that by completely upending postwar fashio

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