What is the nationality of Christian Dior?

Christian Dior was French by nationality.

He was born on 21 January 1905 in Granville, Normandy, France, into a prosperous family. Although his early ambitions included diplomacy and art rather than fashion design, he eventually built his career in Paris, where he worked as an illustrator and later designed for established houses including Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong.

Dior founded his own couture house in Paris in 1946. His first collection, presented in 1947, became famous as the “New Look” and helped reassert French fashion's international authority after World War II. His work was closely associated with French haute couture, Parisian craftsmanship and the cultural prestige of France's fashion industry.

A possible source of confusion is that Dior died in Italy: he died in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, in 1957 while on holiday. His place of death did not change his nationality. Nor should his international career be confused with his national identity; Dior's house quickly expanded abroad, but Christian Dior himself was French, and his label was founded in Paris.