MITZAH INSPIRED SCARVES and FRAGRANCE FROM DIOR

When I scan the Internet for Mitzah and Dior, up comes scarves that sell for a two hundred and fifty U.S. dollars.  These scarves have names such as Toilie de Jouy Sauvage and La Roue de la Fortune Tarot.

Here is a link to one of them DIOR FASHION - MITZAH FASHION SCARF  Here it is mentioned that Christian Dior had a fascination with astrology.

Learning that Mitzah had also come up with the name of his perfume Miss Dior (which was created to honor Dior's sister, and that in keeping with her influence on the designer, a perfume had been invented called Mitza as recently as 2010, I found this exciting review by Chant Wagner:

MIMI FROU FROU COM : CHANT WAGNER's REVIEW OF DIOR's MITZAH PERFUME  from 2017

Excerpt of review: Mitzah eau de parfum by Christian Dior was introduced in 2010 as part of the then debuting Collection Courturier Parfumeur (rebnamed La Collection Privee today), as a homage to Christian Dior's muse, Mizza Bricard.  She was a former stylist at the British fashion house of Molyneux in the 1930's, a milliner by specialty and an all-around style icon.....  Dior stressed that she was one of those rare beings, whose sole purpose in life was the quest of elegance...

Mitzah was reputed for her mysterious exotic aura - which she cultivated - her over-the-top personality and her ability to hold her ground. The latter was precisely the reason why Christian Dior asked her to join his house. He saw her as the healthy and necessary counterweight to what he saw as his overly reasonable Normand temperament. He knew she would not just agree but disagree with him, shout her disapproval at him whenever she saw it fit, thus contributing to an excellent creative dynamic in his workshop.  He wrote that he had hired her because she would embody his favorite motto "I maintain."....

(Do read the article. It's fascinating.)

So how was this woman's personality and temperament expressed in a perfume?  Chant Wagner must be a nose!

Partial description of the perfume: The composition opens on a richly resinous accord with an original counterpoint of coriander, but also a powdery accord which soon becomes more intense. The fragrance composition seems to eschew the convention of opening on bright, sparkling notes - and to aim directly for a sensation of bade, deep notes.

There is something dark and feral about the scent which may be an allusion to Mme Bricard's predilection for wearing leopard fur and print. The impression is musky, slightly sweet, burnt, a bit caramel-y, a bit dry - and overall, jungley....

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SENDING FLOWERS? HERE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS!

When a man wants to send you flowers, always say, ‘My florist is Cartier.’ - Geramine Mitzaah Bricard 

image is from ArtNet identified as a Cartier Basket of Flowers

enamelware from 1847 that was previously auctioned.

Therefore, I believe Bricard was suggesting she wanted something like this rather than cut flowers.

While we do not pick flowers from nature as we do not want to hurt their natural environment for reseeding, nor from public gardens that are intended for the joy of the public, it is still classy to cut flowers from one's own garden and present them in a  bouquet. Set the flowers down in a jar of water and wrap it in decorative paper, or perhaps a quarter yard of fabric - even a cotton handkerchief will do.  Add a small note.

Flowers, gifts, and cards that go unsigned or come from a mystery or anonymous person are now considered to be creepy and undesireable.

MITZAH BRICARD DRIPPING WITH RUBIES : AN ACCOUNT BY BILL CUNNINGHAM

Excerpt from Bill Cunningham's book Fashion Climbing

Page 198

Halfway through the Dior collection, Dior's Directress, Madame Bricard, entered. One of the three ladies who started with Dior sixteen years earlier and was now considered the dowager duchess of fashion, she was a raving beauty at the turn of the century, a very grand demimondaine whom kings, princes, and dukes, showered with jewels.  Madame made her appearance at the top of the grand stairway and magnetized my eyes for the rest of the collection, as this extraordinary woman, sparking with every conceivable device that forms the mystery of fashion, stood like a vision from one of the great French novels, the Madame Bovery of the 1960's  A tall baby-blue felt cone hat wrapped in yards of spidery black veil exposed marcelled black curls over each ear, which were hung with pearls and blood-red rubies from the hat edge. Over the right eye danged a brooch with a pearl the size of a nightingale's egg.  A pearl hatpin anchored the seductive veiling, which shadowed a face so preserved by the art of cosmetics, the yes lacquered and painted in silver fish streaks of green, dropped under the weight of inch-long lashes that served to shade the mystic sapphire blue of her eyes.  Everyone in the room was riveted to this fascinating woman, whose delicate mouth darted out like a lovebird.....

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http://thecoincidentaldandy.blogspot.com/2018/11/mitzah-bricard-christian-diors.html   Mitzah Bricard (whose birth-name was Germaine Louise Neustadtl),