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Events on Wednesday 12 February 1947 1
1947Dior unveils the New LookChristian Dior's first collection transforms postwar fashionChristian Dior presented his first collection in Paris on 12 February 1947. Its cinched waists and full, long skirts were quickly named the New Look. The collection restored Paris as the centre of world fashion after the war.