Irving Penn

Funny games

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

Arts & entertainment: Who's in charge here - model or photographer? Adrian Searle on manipulation and make-believe in a new exhibition of fashion photography

Photo research

Material Interest (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008

Edward Steichen was a renowned painter and photographer whose reputation was tarnished by his more commercial work—for those lowdown ragsVogue and Vanity Fair. (They're not the artistic albatrosses they used to be, apparently.) While researching a traveling exhibition of his...

Fashion for the uber-rich endures

Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008

Couture — impossibly perfect clothes in search of implausibly rich women — hit a new level in Paris two weeks ago. The greatest names in high fashion paraded their winter collections before audiences that included notably more private customers than at any time in the past 30 years. As the rest of us get poorer, the megarich, it seems, are untouchable.

Dorian Leigh, 91; model made Revlon's Fire and Ice cosmetics line famous

LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008

Dorian Leigh, an early supermodel who made Revlon's 1950s Fire and Ice cosmetics line famous, has died. She was 91.Leigh, who went on to run her own modeling agency and open a restaurant in France, died Monday at a nursing home in Falls Church, Va., according to her eldest son, T.L. Hawkins of McLean, Va.Leigh began her modeling career at a major fashion agency run by Harry Conover. She appeared on...

Angela Rippon features in National Portrait Gallery images

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008

Angela Rippon, the television presenter, kicks up her heels in this striking image from a new collection of photographs donated to the National Portrait Gallery.

Former Revlon model, cover girl Dorian Leigh dies

Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008

Dorian Leigh, an early supermodel who made Revlon's 1950s "Fire and Ice" cosmetics line famous, has died at age 91.

• Former Revlon model Dorian Leigh, featured in "Fire and Ice" cosmetic ads, dies at 91 - Star Tribune
• Former Revlon model, cover girl Dorian Leigh dies - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Sheer Elegance: Refinement the Galliano Way

Style.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008

Galliano revels in the realms of glamour Dior established 60 years ago...

Galliano aims thigh-high at Dior

The First Post (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008

The thigh, glimpsed through a semi-sheer skirt, was the new erogenous zone in John Galliano's latest collection for Christian Dior, which kicked off the Paris couture season on Monday. The…

Open Work

Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008

John Galliano built a beautiful Christian Dior fall couture collection around the house's iconic Bar jacket. He even brought an element of its shape into one of his tours de force. Christian Dior: Two

TIME IS ARTIFICIAL & CAN BE ALTERED, PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE THAT TAKES A WHILE TO LEARN...

The Pin-Up Poet Strikes Again (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008

This photo is of Lisa Fonssagrives, one of the world's first supermodels who was the wife of photographer Irving Penn and the face of Dior's 'New Look'. The haute couture shows started today and some of the clothes are extraordinary! I am going to shoot tomorrow with Dennis Galante, and feathers suddenly seem like an excellent idea. One of my favorite books of all time is THE 48 LAWS OF POWER, based...

A-list actresses flock to Paris for couture shows

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008

Luxury labels Christian Dior and Giorgio Armani fought for the hearts and minds of A-list actresses in Paris on Monday with glittering haute couture presentations of red carpet gowns.

Model Beauty at Christian Dior

Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008

Lisa Fonnsagrives, the legendary model and late wife of photographer Irving Penn, inspired beauty looks for Christian Dior's fall-winter 2008-2009 haute couture show. Hairstylist Orlando Pita loosely

Has Carla Bruni's spirit saved couture?

International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008

In the shadow of the death of Yves Saint Laurent but in the sunshine of a stylish first lady, the Paris couture season opened on Monday. And a vision of veiled flesh seen through silhouettes from couture's golden age was a triumph of light-handed seduction at Christian Dior.

Dior gives lesson in modern elegance in Paris show

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008

The Christian Dior show in Paris on Monday should make even notoriously icy U.S. Vogue editor Anna Wintour crack a smile.

Gisele, World's Top Supermodel Bares All

ABC News (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008

The ultra-sexy supermodel dishes about everything from Tom Brady to thongs.