the J’adore Dior logo t-shirt while the staging of the house’s Paris Fashion Week show featured icebergs, molten rocks and a giant Pterodactyl. Creative Director Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Dior ...

As she explained in a preview, it was a blow-up of a Christian Dior archival logo, a piece of hand-drawn advertising artwork made for the launch of the now forgotten Miss Dior boutique in 1967.

But when most people think about these iconic fashion houses, they often don’t think about the historical figures whose names they bear: Christian Dior, whose debut collection signaled a return ...