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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...
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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.
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Quiddity (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Here's a flickr gallery of the photography of Louise Dahl-Wolfe featuring glamorous women living the jet set life. Link via foto decadent.
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Foto Decadent (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
This post is inspired by ana_lee 's Louise Dahl-Wolfe Bazaar post. It's amazing that irving is something like 90 years old and still occasionally does shoots for Vogue.
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Foto Decadent (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Where the hell am I ? Suzy Parker Mae West by Louise Dahl-Wolfe
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Jurisdynamics (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. — Carson McCullers To many of my fellow residents of Danzig U.S.A. , I often say that my best preparation for becoming law school dean at the University of Louisville was to reread the works of Carson McCullers (1917-67). Plagued by atrocious health and a tempestuous love life,...
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Foto Decadent (Free subscription) | 10/17/2007
California Desert, 1948 Model in Rubber Bathing Suit, California, 1940 Mary Jane Russell in Dior Dress, Paris, 1950 Mary Sykes, Puerto Rico, 1938 Luki in Balenciaga Cape Coat, 1953 Japanese Bath, 1954 Model in Dior Ball Gown, 1950 Two Models on Beach, 1949 Rear View (Two Models with Elephants), 1947 COCO CHANEL National Museum of Women in the Arts - some small pictures
