HEART CHAMBER OF CHIC .. He probably would have just sniffed the roses that are at the reception, the elegant lady would have nodded there would have driven the elevator to the second floor, as usual, to open the door to his couture salon. By now, Christian Dior would have been surprised. For the stucco area where 12 February 1947 his famous "New Look" collection debut, has been transformed into an apartment privé. Once the salon where his house models with fittings so long and went off until he had found the perfect hemline, this room was the chamber of the heart of his fashion empire. A place where the applause of the last still working on the Dior fashion shows, in the ear, to the point of exhaustion. "Completely Dior" was the order of Peter Marino. New York has the empty salon turned into an apartment, where, as it wished LVMH Chairman Bernard Arnault, receptions and soirees are held for Couturekunden or VIPs. Simple, says the designer, who designed the interiors of the Dior boutiques worldwide, had not been the task. "It was up to the marble fireplaces and appliqués nothing." But it is precisely the intimacy of the rooms have irritated him - "only the wonderful French window" The curtains, raspberry-colored silk and light gray tulle, he had filled with trims and embroidered with pearls , "as if they were ball gowns from Dior." The furniture, the 18 most Century, he found in the Parisian antiques trade. This art as Dior himself would not want to miss: a small oil painting of Bébé Bérard, a Toulouse-Lautrec, a late Renoir, Édouard Vuillard ..