60's - THE BEAUTY OF BEING YOUR AGE

HANDS: THE LANGUAGE OF BEAUTY

Nail Satin by Max Factor

Richard Avedon

THE BEAUTY OF INGRID BERGMAN

THE BEAUTY OF SUZY PARKER

Mark Mooring for Bergdorf Goodman

Richard Avedon

Christian Dior

Richard Avedon

20 years of being 30

Helene Rubinstein - Scassi

Richard Avedon

Betty Carol

Francesco Scavullo

THE ITALIAN VERVE

Fabiani

Gleb Derujinsky

THE PARISIAN JOIE

Pierre Balmain

Gleb Derujinsky

BARED BACKS FROU HATS

Nina Ricci

Hat by Paulette

Gleb Derujinsky

Brunetta

AVEDON:

ASPECTS OF TEENAGE CULTURE

U.S.A.

FABIAN

THE EVERLY BROTHERS

PHIL - DON

GENE PITNEY - MANAGER ARON SCHROEDER

DION

SUMMER FASHION IN HIGH GEAR

Adele Simpson

Sophie

Hannah Troy

Larry Aldrich

FOR GOLDEN GIRLS

GOLDEN LOOKS

Contessa Chrhistina Polozzi in Galanos

Contessa Christina Paolozzi

Galanos

Richard Avedon

WAYS TO ENJOY THE EVENING
Carmen Dell'Orifice in Norman Norell
Lillian Bassman

WAYS TO LOOK AT HOME
Carmen Dell'Orifice in Perfect
Lillian Bassman

ON THE TOWN
Ostrich feathers by Norman Norell
Gleb Derujinsky

THE NEW GOLDEN AGE

KIMBERLY

Melvin Sokolsky

THE BEAUTY OF BEING YOUR AGE

Francesco Scavullo

Harper's Bazaar April 1961

CONTESSA CHRISTINA PAOLOZZI

SHAMELESS

Richard Avedon

Harper's Bazaar January 1962

Contessa Christina Paolozzi, was the daughter of Count Lorenzo Paolozzi of Rome and Alicia Spaulding, a United Fruit heiress. 

RICHARD AVEDON 

HARPER'S BAZAAR JANUARY 1962

The contessa had a gift for scandal that kept her in the news for more than a decade.

A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE NUDE BY RICHARD AVEDON 

HARPER'S BAZAAR JANUARY 1962

 After she appeared topless in the January 1962 issue of Harper’s Bazaar, the contessa was exiled from the Social Register.

     

RICHARD AVEDON 

HARPER'S BAZAAR JANUARY 1962

Police were summoned to a Hampton’s Fourth of July party after the contessa had written “bring your topless bathing suit” on a handful of invitations. Eight hundred guests showed up for the party.  

RICHARD AVEDON 

HARPER'S BAZAAR JANUARY 1962

At the age of twenty-four, Christina spurned a stable of European playboys and wed Howard Bellin, a plastic surgeon from New Jersey.

RICHARD AVEDON 

HARPER'S BAZAAR SEPTEMBER 1960

Their marriage was an open one.

RICHARD AVEDON 

HARPER'S BAZAAR SEPTEMBER 1960

At thirty-eight, after a face-lift and thigh reduction, Paolozzi enjoyed her disco life with an eighteen year-old boy-toy.

RICHARD AVEDON 

HARPER'S BAZAAR SEPTEMBER 1960

In 1981, and recently divorced from Bellin, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor and told she had only three months to live.

 RICHARD AVEDON 

HARPER'S BAZAAR SEPTEMBER 1960

She fought a brave fight for another seven years and died in 1988 at the age of fourty-nine.

CONTESSA CHRISTINA PAOLOZZI

1937 - 1988

ONCE A GREAT BEAUTY