Miss Dior is a wartime story of freedom and fascism, beauty and betrayal and ''a gripping story'' (Antonia Fraser).''Exceptional . . . Miss Dior is so much more than a biography. It¿s about how necessity can drive people to either terrible deeds or acts of great courage, and how beauty can grow from the worst kinds of horror.¿DAILY TELEGRAPHMiss Dior explores the relationship between the visionary designer Christian Dior and his beloved younger sister Catherine, who inspired his most famous perfume and shaped his vision of femininity. Justine Picardie¿s journey takes her to wartime Paris, where Christian honed his couture skills while Catherine dedicated herself to the French Resistance and the battle against the Nazis, until she was captured by the Gestapo and deported to the German concentration camp of Ravensbr¿ck.Tracing the wartime paths of the Dior siblings leads Picardie deep