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On February 17, 1947, Christian Dior launched a series of fashions named after the
"Corolla" in Paris, which was dubbed the "New Look" by Harper’s Bazaar editor
Carmel Snow. This design became an instant success and shocked the whole world,
almost all the media use it as the headline. Some people even exclaimed: It is Dior’s
new fashions that truly ended the World War II and brought people’s broken hearts
back to beauty and tranquility. It can be said that this "New Look" permanently
changed the fashion industry, as well as created the trend that would dominate the
next decade. As a result, the nipped-in waist and full-skirted silhouette remained the
leading style until the mid-1950s.
The whole look of the 1950s was mature and syncretic. Fashion curator Daniel
Milford-Cottam described it in Fashion in the 1950s: “One particularly striking aspect
of the decade was the emergence of stylish options. Two ladies could walk down the
street in different outfits, yet appear equally modish, be their skirts full and narrow, or