25-02-2008
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Lisa Fonssagrives
Swedish born Lisa Fonssagrives (nee Andersson) worked as a model from the 1930s to the 1950s. She was married to photographer Ferdinand Fonssagrives, and then to photographer Irving Penn.
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What can be shown, cannot be said. Last edited by iluvjeisa : 25-02-2008 at 05:49 AM. |
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25-02-2008
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(operagloves.com)
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25-02-2008
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I'm fairly certain she already has a thread?
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Yes! Grate some puffin on that! |
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26-02-2008
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Please PM me with the link. I did a search, of course
 I did find a thread for her first husband: http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums...her-32507.html
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What can be shown, cannot be said. Last edited by iluvjeisa : 26-02-2008 at 02:28 AM. |
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19-05-2008
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I found some photos of her, as well as her sculptures (she was an artist). I read a quote from her in which she described herself as 'a good clothes-hanger'. She looks so icy and perfect, so it's nice that she had a sense of humour about her profession. *Some of these pictures may not be of her, I'm still learning to id. Source: vintagemagazines.com and Gatochy's photostream on Flickr.com
            I just realized the first vogue cover and the photo with the opera gloves and lavender dress isn't her. It was taken by Louise Dahl Wolfe, and I don't know the model. Sorry! I'm not sure how to remove it without messing up the whole post! Thank you for the lovely Thread, Jeisa |
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08-01-2009
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More photos of Lisa Fonssagrives.
Sources: www.fashioninsider.us, www.artnet.com, fashionablefotos.blogspot.com      |
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08-01-2009
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There are many more pictures at the Lisa Fonssagrives Glove Gallery
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08-01-2009
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Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, 80, Artist Who Gave Up Career as a Model
Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, a leading fashion model in the 1940's and 50's, died Tuesday at New York Hospital. She was 80 years old and lived in Huntington L.I. She died of pneumonia, a family representative said. An elegant blonde, the Swedish-born model posed for some of the most famous photographers of the age, including Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen Huene and Irving Penn, whom she married in 1950. In the late 1940's, when most models were paid $10 to $25 an hour, she was earning $40 an hour. When most models's careers ended before their 30th birthdays, hers flourished until she was past 40. She was a frequent subject of Penn's photographs for Vogue magazine, particularly his studies of French haute couture. Alexander Liberman, the editorial director of Conde Nast Publications, which publishes Vogue, said the Penns represented "an extraordinary relationship between a photographer and a model." "She was the inspiration and subject of some of Penn's greatest photographs," Mr. Liberman said yesterday. "She epitomized a very noble period of fashion and couture. She gave a classical dignity to anything she wore." 'A Good Clothes Hanger' Lisa Fonssagrives had a more down-to-earth attitude to her contributions as a model. She was quoted in a 1949 article in Time magazine as saying: "It is always the dress, it is never, never the girl. I'm just a good clothes hanger." |
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08-01-2009
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Lisa Fonssagrives - Supermodel Numero Uno
Swedish-born Lisa Fonssagrives has a face that is synonymous with French and American fashion. Her image has graced more Vogue covers than any other model and despite the claims of Janice Dickinson to have not only been the first, but also to have coined the term supermodel, it was Lisa who can lay claim to that title - even though she described herself as no more than “the clothes hanger”. The term supermodel was actually dreamt up in the 1940’s by a journalist to describe the top models of the day. |
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18-01-2009
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18-01-2009
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More photographs including one of her Vogue covers.
Source: http://www.leninimports.com/lisa_fonssagrives.html      |
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19-01-2009
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Vogue and Time covers
Source: ebay.com   |
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21-01-2009
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Another Vogue cover and a photo that appeared in the October 1951 Vogue.
Sources: CoverBrowser.com, Conde Nast Store   Last edited by dpbenson : 21-01-2009 at 12:27 AM. Reason: Corrected the image and source of the Vogue cover |
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24-02-2009
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12-03-2009
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Le Plage De Cabasson
Source: artnet.com  In 1950s in the Rhinelander Mansion in NYC Source: Wikimedia Commons  Source: Lisa Fonssagrives MySpace            |
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