Dress the history of fashion is a production of iHeartRadio.

Over 7 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

Every day, we all get dressed.

We welcome to dress the history of fashion, a podcast where we explore the who

let when of why we wear your fashion historians and your hosts April Callahan and Cassidy Zachary.

Welcome dress listeners to part two of our conversation with Justine Pickardy

about her book Mistiore, A Story of Courage and Couture, in which she explores the extraordinary

life of Catherine Dior, sister of famed Oak Couturier Christian Dior, and as we will learn more

about today, the inspiration behind some of his most famous works.

On Tuesday's episode, Justine gave us a glimpse into Catherine and Christian's formative years

growing up together in the French countryside in Normandy, where their unbreakable bond was

solidified after a series of family tragedies. As a young woman, Catherine ended up following her

brother Christian to Paris, where he worked as an art galleryist, before getting his first

fashion design job at the House of Robert Pierre, and then after that, Lucie and the Long,

where he would find himself to be working when World War II broke out in 1939.

And by 1940, as many of you may know, the Nazis occupied Paris, and they were attempting to infiltrate

and exert control over every aspect of Parisian life and industry, and that included the fashion

industry. And while this is not something we will really delve into very much today,

Justine does an incredible job in the book of telling the story of the French fashion industry

under German occupation. She writes about the black market, she writes about Nazi wives as customers,

and then of course, low-longs role in preventing the Nazis from transferring the French

Oak Couturier industry to Germany. And she also talks about clothing rationing April, which you

...