Anne de Courcy

The elusive adventures of Catherine Dior

The former editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar has tackled that most difficult subject: the person about whom virtually nothing is known

Christian Dior’s house La Colle Noire in Provence, where Catherine spent six months during the war. Credit: François Durand/Getty Images for Parfums Christian Dior 
issue 04 September 2021

  • Miss Dior: A Study of Courage and Couture

    Justine Picardie

    Haber, pp. 448, £25

When Catherine Dior, one of the heroic French Resistance workers captured by the Nazis, came face to face with her torturer at his trial in 1952, to receive the suggestion from his lawyer that it was a case of mistaken identity, she burst out furiously to the judge: ‘I know what I’m saying.

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