La Tortura

Other remixes have also been made by independent DJs.
. This music video also entered on Total Request Live's countdown. The Dior firm – successively led by designers Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferre, and John Galliano – continued to be a fashion leader and was associated with a much wider range of merchandise, including menswear and household linens. A separate music video (also directed by Haussman) was also made for the remix. At the time of his death, Dior salons had been opened in 24 countries. The single also included a remix, "The Shaketon Mix", merging a reggaeton style with the original rhythm of the song. Although his death was the big story in the French press it was quickly forgotten, overshadowed by the launching of the first Soviet sputnik three days later.

It can also be noted that the video for "La Tortura" was one of the first in Spanish language to run a lot of times on "mainstream" American music channels such as MTV and VH1. "Alexis: The Memoirs of the Baron de Redé", the 2005 memoirs of Paris socialite Alexis von Rosenberg, Baron de Redé, however, suggests that the fashion designer actually died of a heart attack after a too strenuous evening spent with two young men. It was also the second Spanish-language video ever to enter in Total Request Live's countdown. The plump Dior, who suffered from heart trouble, reportedly died of a heart attack while undergoing a weight-loss cure at the spa in Montecatini, Italy, in an effort to make himself more desirable to his young North African lover, singer Jacques Benita; the death reportedly occurred in the lobby of the Hotel Pace after an after-dinner canasta game. The music video is in itself somewhat notable, as it was the first time MTV showed an whole episode of the Making the Video series in another language (with English subtitles). Normally under French inheritance law, having no children or parents, Raymond should have been Christian's successor but the rift provoked by Françoise caused Christian to disinherit his close family totally. He remembers things they'd done in the past as a couple, while Shakira dances erotically, covered in black paint. For once Raymond agreed with his rebel daughter, while discounting the Jewish plot theory.

From his apartment, Sanz spies on Shakira as she goes to her apartment and changes clothes. She openly blamed Christian's Jewish manageress who procured his medications, along with a collection of young men, of being part of a Jewish plot forcing him towards his death. The music video, directed by Michael Haussman, is quite simple. His niece, Françoise Dior, who had once been his favourite (at her marriage with Count Robert-Henri de Caumont la Force it was Christian who gave the bride away at the ceremony while Raymond sat drinking in a local bar) but she held Nazi sympathies. The song was chosen as the World's #5 Favorite Song of All Time in a global survey by Sony Ericsson of 700,000 music fans in 66 countries. Towards the end of his life Christian's life was a hectic round of injections to wake up in the morning, injections for his appetite, and further injections to sleep. "La Tortura" broke the record on the Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks chart, appearing at #1 for 25 non-consecutive weeks. On the rare occasions when they found themselves together it usually ended in dispute with Raymond calling his brother "filthy queer" while Christian replied with "impotent drunk.".

It was also a huge hit in Europe, with the exception of the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it was not released as a single. However, when Jean Cocteau bought the small château at Milly-la-Forêt (Essonne) and Christian Dior shortly afterwards bought a disused water-mill in the same village, he persuaded his brother Raymond to buy a fermette in the village of Noisy sur Ecole (Seine et Marne) only 4km away. La Tortura was on the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 in less than ten weeks (#23). Dior refused to set foot in the town of Granville for the rest of his life. The video clip of the song was nominated for the Viewer's Choice Award on the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards, during which Shakira performed with Sanz (notably, it was the first time a guest performed a song entirely in a language other than English). Once Christian had made his fortune he attempted to repurchase the house where he was born but the new owner (Granville town council) rejected his offers. Since its release as a single, the song has become one of the most important Latin songs to move into mainstream English-speaking culture in the United States (alongside Daddy Yankee's Gasolina). One of Christian's earliest memories was of Raymond locking him in the dark cellar of the house in Granville whenever he had the opportunity, then search the garden for live animals or insects to push under the door.

. Dior was continually feuding with his elder brother Raymond Dior. The single is Shakira's sixth in the United States, following the commercial success of her 2001 album Laundry Service. On returning, after trouble with his temporary replacement Marc Bohan, Saint-Laurent soon opened his own maison de couture once his military obligations were over. It tells the story of a woman who has been emotionally "tortured" because her boyfriend left; however, when he returns begging her forgiveness, she humiliates him and says that she is not going to shed tears over him. In 1953 Yves Saint-Laurent became Dior's assistant and was destined to be his successor but was reluctantly forced to leave when the time came for his military service. The single is a duet between Shakira and Spanish ballad-singer Alejandro Sanz. Dior spread his fashions around the world when he and his partner, Jacques Rouet, started franchises in the fashion industry.

"La Tortura" (English: The Torture) is the first single from Colombian-born singer Shakira's sixth studio album, Fijación Oral 1. The New Look revolutionized women's dress and reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world after World War II. His designs represented consistent classic elegance, stressing the feminine look. Dior is known mainly for the 1947 "New Look" which employed narrow shoulders, a constricted waist, an emphasized bust, and long, wide skirt, all in striking contrast to the severity of wartime fashions. In twelve years he expanded his business to 15 countries and employed over 2,000 people.

Dior was a graduate of Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as Sciences Po), after which he established his main house of couture in Parisgift 1946 with the backing of textile magnate Marcel Boussac. In twelve years he expanded his business to 15 countries and employed over 2,000 people.. In 1946, backed by textile magnate Marcel Boussac, he established his main house of couture in Paris. Christian Dior" He was born in Granville, Normandy, France, heir to a fertilizer fortune.