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title: "New Look"
description: "The New Look is the name given by the press to Christian Dior’s first collection of February 1947, with its narrow waist, padded hips and long, full skirts."
type: Glossary
url: https://teazle.art/glossary/new-look
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
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# New Look

*The New Look is the name given by the press to Christian Dior’s first collection of February 1947, with its narrow waist, padded hips and long, full skirts.*

Dior’s first collection, shown in Paris on 12 February 1947, presented two lines, Corolle and En 8. Their rounded shoulders, cinched waists and long skirts using many metres of fabric were a deliberate break with wartime austerity. A fashion editor, usually identified as Carmel Snow of *Harper’s Bazaar*, called it a “New Look”, and the name stuck.


## Sources

1. [Dior's 'New Look' in the everyday American closet](https://www.chhs.colostate.edu/avenir/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/diors-new-look/). Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising, Colorado State University
2. [New Look](https://www.encyclopedia.com/fashion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/new-look-0). Encyclopedia.com
3. [New Look (Q2030942)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2030942). Wikidata

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