Marie Madeleine Juliette Martin (1879–1931) was the wife of the industrialist Maurice Dior, known for her English-style garden at her villa Les Rhumbs in Granville, Manche, France.

[4] It had a large piece of adjoining land which Madeleine Dior transformed into a southern-style garden, overcoming the hostility of the winds blowing in from the sea to grow delicate plants.

In his autobiography, Christian Dior remembers this period when women were occupied "with making shredded cloth bandages, hospitals, letters from the front and recreation sessions for the injured.

James de Coquet, journalist for Le Figaro, remembered being amazed by his visit to Les Rhumbs in 1929: "I complimented Madame Dior on her beautiful garden.

Not only that; my life, my style, owe nearly everything to its location and architecture," and "...(it) was pebbledashed in a very soft pink, blended with gray gravel, and these two colors have remained my favorite shades in couture.

Having spent his childhood learning the names of flowers and their descriptions from horticulture catalogs, Christian Dior drew inspiration from them to create the silhouettes that would lead to his success in 1947 with the Corolle line.

[5] Finally, it was Madeleine Dior's look that the couturier remembered when he invented the famous New Look with its nipped in waist, pronounced hips and emphasized bust recalling the feminine silhouettes of the Belle Époque.

Long after the couturier's death, the House of Dior continues to pay tribute to this muse, as in the Fall-Winter 2005 runway show, where a Belle Époque-inspired dress was named "Madeleine".