Vogue September 1962

Sondra Peterson

Irving Penn

One of the new big hats that change the whole silhouette by Saint Laurent

September Song 1962

PARIS NEWS

Irving Penn

Evening Headdress by Saint Laurent

Evening Folly - the black plume - on a black velvet pincushion, jet-pinned. 

Fisherman's Shirt Overblouse, Narrowest Skirt

Hat: Stiff velvet sou-wester 

Saint Laurent

Fisherman's Shirt, Wind-ballooned back

Brass Beaver hat

Saint Laurent

Sondra Peterson

Lanvin Castillo

Sondra Peterson

Longer jacket profile - Mink pompon cap

Dior

Fur-trimmed Hood

The Return of Moire 

Costume by Ricci

The Nine-tenths Coat

Violet with Curry

Costume by Courreges

Sondra Peterson

Brown Velvet Dinner Suit

Balmain

Simonetta and Fabiani

Simonetta and Fabiani

Black cire satin and mink

Saint Laurent

Rubies and pearls at the neck and ears

Stiffened feathers worn offside

Saint Laurent

The Basque Bodice of Jet Beads

Saint Laurent

Stark Magnificence

Crepe coat edged in Mink

Dior

Cage of Veiling

Wide sleeved tweed suit

Lanvin Castillo

The Dramatic Aside

Hooded cape in black wool with Badger 

Gres

Long Narrow Brocade 

Heim

AMERICAN LOOKS TO RAISE THE FASHION PULSE

The Winter Suit

Norman Norell

Matt Lizard

Tiffeau and Busch

William Klein

Long Bloused Suit

Irene of New York

The Bijou Suit - Evenings

Ceil Chapman

The Enlightened Pales

Jablow

The Infra-Bright Wools

Jane Derby

Oriental Headdresses by Adolfo - Scassi Necklace

William Klein

AMERICAN MAINSTAYS

The Ultimate Courtesan

Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman

Horst

American Mainstays With This Years Dash

Laird-Knox

The News Is The Foxy Fringe

Pattullo-Jo Copeland

Split-Level Waistline

Galanos

White-For-Town Suit

Aywon of Strong

Mr. John Beige Leather Turban

Horst

Captive

Zebra-Raising

The Fashion Pulse

Wild-skinned Beauty by Mademoiselle Ricci

Coiffure by Kenneth Battelle

William Klein

BRITISH IMPORT

Peter Sellers

"The brilliant sum of his minus qualities"

Photography: Bert Stern

Vogue September Issue 1962

Marilyn Monroe - Vogue September Issue 1962 Revisited

Marilyn Monroe

Norman Norell

Bert Stern

"The word of Marilyn Monroe's death came just as this issue of Vogue went on the press. After the first shock of tragedy, we debated whether it was technically possible to remove the pages from the printing forms. And then while we waited for an answer from our printers, we decided to publish the photographs in any case. For these were perhaps the only pictures of a new Marilyn Monroe - a Marilyn who showed outwardly the elegance and taste which we learned that she had instinctively; an indication of her lovely maturity, an emerging from the hoyden's shell into a profoundly beautiful, profoundly moving young woman."

In the contemporary fable

her allure was

infallible off-screen, too.

Yet, in the phrase of a 

practiced observer,

"No woman could dislike her."

Marilyn Monroe

Shy, witty, inventive,

she walked through the

long Vogue sittings

in what Norman Norell called

her "Funny short-cuts."

(One of his favourites on 

Joe DiMaggio's looks: "He's 

just a Michelangelo.")

Marilyn Monroe

the magnificent blond image

in the American memory-stream,

in the great film collections,

in movie houses as

unlikely as Tehran's

"She has given a warm delight to millions of people, made them smile affectionately, laugh uproariously, love her to the point of caring deeply - often aggressively - about her personal unhappiness. That she withstood the incredible, unknowable pressures of her public legend as long as she did is evidence of the stamina of the human spirit. Too late one can only wish that somehow, somewhere that pressure might have been lifted long enough to let her find the key to the self behind the public image. The waste seems almost unbearable if out of her death comes nothing of insight into her special problems; no step towards a knowledge that might save, for the living, these beautiful and tormented."

Vogue September 1962
Photography: Bert Stern

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