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He worked at several Parisian couture houses including Piguet, Molyneux and Patou before joining Dior in 1958. His initial role was to design the London collections. In 1961, he showed his first collection as Christian Dior's creative director in Paris, receiving jubilant reviews from the fashion press. Bohan continued as creative director, steering the house through the cultural shifts of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, until departing in 1989.\n\nThis suit was ordered from the Christian Dior salon in Paris by Jill Ritblat.","physicalDescription":"Short-waisted jacket in grey wool with white stripes. It has a collarless round neck and centre-front button opening. It has long sleeves with detachable white cuffs fixed with poppers. The jacket is lined with grey silk. Matching skirt with cream silk 'Liberty' bodice top with centre-back zip opening with hook at top of neck. There is also a left side zip with poppers on the skirt. 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At Jewish weddings, you go to synagogue the Saturday before the wedding, so that was where the suit was worn, and to the lunch afterwards. I wore this suit a lot as well, even to go shopping in. Sometimes I wore it with one of my Hermès printed silk turban hats. I also wore the little red hat** separately at Ascot with a Courrèges dress and jacket.\"\n\n* - see T.359:1 to 3-2000\n** - T.358-2000\n\n(Added by DMC, 21/07/2017)\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Skirt suit of grey striped wool with white linen sleeveless blouse, Christian Dior by Marc Bohan, Look 3  haute couture spring/summer 1966, <i>Silhouette courte et mouvante </i>collection, Paris, France","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Haute couture","id":"THES48861"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"LOOK 3 ENSEMBLE\n\r\nChristian Dior by Marc Bohan (b.1926)\r\nHaute couture, Spring/Summer 1966\r\n<i>Silhouette courte et mouvante</i> collection\r\nWool, linen and straw\n\r\nVictoria and Albert Museum - T.362:1 to 3-2000 - Given by Jill Ritblat\n\n\nChristian Dior: Designer of Dreams","date":{"text":"02/02/2019-14/07/2019","earliest":"2019-02-02","latest":"2019-07-14"}}],"partNumbers":["T.362:1-2000","T.362:2-2000","T.362:3-2000"],"accessionNumberNum":"362","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":2000,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Ritblat catalogue","id":"THES51956"},"number":"9"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Jacket","Skirt"],"assets":["2019LH7371"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-09-01","recordCreationDate":"2000-08-22","availableToBook":false}}