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Soon after Christian Dior opened his fashion house in 1947, glamorous stars like Josephine Baker, Marlene Dietrich and Brooklyn-born Rita Hayworth were shown to great advantage, both onscreen and off, in @dior’s creations. For her 1951 tour of America Baker wore several signature Dior designs including the “Mexique” gown which is on view in Dior Designer Of Dreams. Earlier this year, Dior’s new global brand ambassador Yara Shahidi wore a haute couture gown by Maria Grazia Chiuri which was designed to evoke and honor the legendary performer.  ⁠ ⁠ Today, November 30, 2021, following a multiyear campaign, Josephine Baker will become the first American-born woman, the first Black woman and only the sixth woman in total to be interred at the Pantheon, Paris, a mausoleum for distinguished French citizens (Baker became a French citizen in 1937). Originally buried in Monaco in 1975, Baker will join fellow members of the WWII French Resistance Genevieve de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Germaine Tillion, as well as Nobel prize winning chemist Marie Curie.