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1955: Models illustrate a lecture by designer Christian Dior entitled, 'Fashion: its Economic, Cultural and Aesthetic Place in Modern Civilisation', at the Sorbonne in Paris. (Photo by Serge Berton/BIPs/Getty Images)

1955:  Models illustrate a lecture by designer Christian Dior entitled, 'Fashion: its Economic, Cultural and Aesthetic Place in Modern Civilisation', at the Sorbonne in Paris.  (Photo by Serge Berton/BIPs/Getty Images)