On the occasion of **Raf Simons’**s ready-to-wear debut today at the helm of Christian Dior, here’s a peek back at the winter of 1947—photographed for the April issue of Vogue—when the news from post-Liberation Paris, besides the bone-chilling cold, was full skirts and wasp-waisted, silk-shantung Bar jackets, an extravagantly feminine “New Look” for Parisiennes, accustomed to the frugal and utilitarian, that was dreamed up by a new designer, Christian Dior, at a brand-new house bearing his name.
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