Made from paste pearls of varied shapes and clear paste round and navette stones, this highly feminine necklace is made for a bride, graceful and sinuous in its design. Made in the mid 1950s by Henkel and Grosse in Pforzheim, Germany,when Christian Dior was at the height of his creative powers, this is a design that has never been seen before, a unique and enchanting necklace. Christian Dior was born into a wealthy family in 1905, being raised in the Normandy seaside town of Granville. Working first for Robert Piguet and then for Lucien Lelong as a head designer, during the war years, he then opened his own couture house. His now highly celebrated and iconic first collection ‘Corolle’ caused a sensation, and is now known by its more famous name ‘New Look’. From the very beginning in 1947, jewellery played a very prominent part in his collections, initially recalling the pomp and grandeur of the 18th century , its femininity and glamour, and later moving into extravagant experiments with Austrian stones and paste, throughout the late 1950s until the 1970s.