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Recipes with refinement

Alison Waters with her Christian Dior cookbook.
Alison Waters with her Christian Dior cookbook.Eddie Jim

French fashion designer Christian Dior loved food and cooking so much, he had a book of his recipes published in 1972 called La Cuisine Cousu-Main.

Only 4000 copies of the book were printed. Want to see one? Head to the Art of Elegance dinner, celebrating seven decades of vintage fashion at Como House on September 5, and a copy of Dior's book will be on display.

The evening will be presented by Alison Waters, of the Waters Group, a publicity and arts consultancy.

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Waters was given the book by her friend Aurel E. Dessewffy, who discovered it at an auction house in Camberwell in the early '90s.

The evening will include 62 couture dresses to be modelled as well as a sit-down dinner with ''one or two hors' d'oeuvres for the evening chosen from Dior's book'', Waters says.

The team from The Stables of Como will create the menu. The cost is $100 a person and money raised will go towards preservation of the National Trust's costume collection.

For bookings, phone (03) 9656 9889.

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