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Dior's first female director raises the bar

Models walk the runway during the Christian Dior Spring Summer 2017 show as part of Paris Fashion Week.

​Amazingly for a label founded in 1946 and so steeped in the sweetest of feminine details that it sometimes seems as if it's the fashion equivalent of marzipan, it has taken Dior almost 70 years to get around to appointing a woman as its creative director.