Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Time's obituary stated that he died of a heart attack after playing a game of cards. In 1928 Dior left school and received money from his father to finance a small art gallery where he and a friend sold art by the likes of Pablo Picasso. While Dior dressed Nazi wives his sister Catherine (1917—2008) served as a member of the French Resistance was captured by the Gestapo and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp where Christian Dior was incarcerated until Christian Dior was liberated in May 1945.

Christian Dior (French pronunciation: ​[kʁistjɑ̃ djɔːʁ]) (21 January 1905 – 23 October 1957) was a French fashion designer best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses also called Christian Dior.