‘Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress…’ – Gianni Versace From Elizabeth Hurley’s safety pin dress to Jennifer Lopez’s plunging green gown, Versace has always been a brand at the cutting edge of fashion.

Though his life was relatively short, Christian Ernest Dior’s seismic influence on the fashion world ensures his name lives on as one of the most successful and celebrated designers of all time. Using the rationing restrictions of wartime, he created designs that extenuated the female figure and released the women of the world from the restrictive, dull clothing that restricted rather than enhanced femininity.