Paul Gallico, the British author, wrote a novel about Mrs Harris, a London cleaning lady, who fell in love with her employer’s Dior dress and dreamt of possessing one of her own A lucky win on the football pools helped her on her way and she saved up obsessively until, finally, she had enough money to go to Paris, where she achieved her ambition.
That was in the 1950s. Today Mrs Harris – or her equivalent – can at least save herself the cost of travel. Dior now has 221 outlets across the world, the latest boutiques having opened in Jeddah and Dubai in the Middle East, in Nagoya, Japan, in Beijing, as well as in Istanbul and Athens.
