Dior’s Bar jacket turns 75. An iconic garment that adapts to current trends and reinvents itself with new fabrics and cuts. The Bar jacket is a symbol of elegance that crosses time and fashion, and that sealed the worldwide success of Monsieur Dior in 1947.
Considered an architectural work of clothing, it is a recognizable piece for its extreme delicacy of its tight waist, soft shoulders and with contours that emphasize the shape of the hips, this is a garment that elegantly marks the feminine curves.
It was at the Hotel de la Plaza Athenée in Paris, where Monsieur Dior liked to have lunch, and where he dreamed up the idea of this iconic garment. His success was immediate: in its first season, the design was reproduced twenty-one times.
The Bar jacket reinvents itself with each creative designer and each season, adapting to the trends. sIt is designed with single or double breasted, tuxedo, with more open flap, fabric print animal… an eternal piece that is easy to combine with all kinds of garments, from jeans to a party skirt.
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