Christian Dior
SEI-Q "Performer" Fashion Designer · French · 20th c.French fashion designer (1905–1957). In 1947 he announced the "New Look" and transformed world fashion overnight. "The most influential fashion designer of the 20th century." Dying suddenly at 52, his brief career left an outsized legacy.
Leading Function-Si-p (Sensibility & Subtlety)
The 1947 New Look — the "Bar" jacket's waist designed at 46 centimetres, even the skirt's spread radius calculated. The aesthetic declaration of "a woman like a flower" translated into precise physical proportions.
Creative Function+Fe-c (Elation & Revelation)
Frequently jumping up during sketching and shouting "That's it!" — unable to suppress full-body elation when inspiration struck. "Fashion is emotion made visible."
Vulnerable Function 1-Te-p weak (Optimization & Ingenuity)
Weak -Te-p: fully delegating all business beyond design — financial management, supplier negotiations, employee management — to business partner Rouet.
Vulnerable Function 2+Ni-c weak (Future & Challenge)
Weak +Ni-c: famously consulting an astrologer every season — delegating actions to astrology rather than long-range strategic design. Dying suddenly in 1957.
Quadra / Temperament / Club
Quadra: Anti-Gamma Quadra (Utopia) — Dior made a counter-value declaration of "the beauty of flowers and women" in 1947 Paris liberated from the violent γ order of Nazi occupation.
Temperament: Receptive-Adaptive temperament: poverty, war, gallery bankruptcy — adapting through "continuing to create beautiful things."
Club: Socialite Club: direct conversations with craftspeople in the atelier, handwritten letters to models, personal relationships with customers — "boundless human connection."
Worldview & Attitude
"The devastation and dreariness of postwar Europe exist" — the direct statement of present reality. The ないもの (beauty already restored) is not proclaimed.
Attitude toward Change: Executing the New Look as a realistic transformation plan — pointing the direction; the House of Dior sustained by successors.