Christian Dior SE, commonly known as Dior, is a French luxury fashion house controlled and chaired by French businessman Bernard Arnaul, who heads LVMH, the world's largest luxury group. The company was founded in 1946 by French fashion designer Christian Dior, originally from Normandy. Since the 1940s, the French label has been providing customers worldwide with some of the most beautiful garments, whether a ready-to-wear cocktail dress or an haute couture red carpet gown that will command the attention of everyone in the room.