Suzy Parker in Lanvin-Castillo's Wide-Shouldered Suit - Mike Nichols looks on protectively.
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon's fashion spread of Suzy Parker & Mike Nichols in a fashion send-up, scandal-sheet style, of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton fleeing from the mobs of paparazzi hounding them at the start of their love affair during the filming of Cleopatra in Rome 1961.
Lanvin-Castillo
In the November 2007 Harper’s Bazaar
140th Anniversary Issue Mike Nichol’s explains his part in the now-iconic fashion spread.
"It started, essentially, as a joke. Dick was a friend of mine, and he called up and asked if I'd like to play this gag on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra," says director Mike Nichols of the now-legendary fashion-story/tabloid send-up that he and supermodel Suzy Parker starred in for Harper's Bazaar in 1962. "I said, 'sure, why not?'" continues Nichols, then a thirty-year-old comic. "I'd made fun of a lot of people at that point; it seemed like a great idea."
Mike Nichols
Harper's Bazaar November 2007
"It started, essentially, as a joke. Dick was a friend of mine, and he called up and asked if I'd like to play this gag on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra," says director Mike Nichols of the now-legendary fashion-story/tabloid send-up that he and supermodel Suzy Parker starred in for Harper's Bazaar in 1962. "I said, 'sure, why not?'" continues Nichols, then a thirty-year-old comic. "I'd made fun of a lot of people at that point; it seemed like a great idea."
Mike Nichols
Harper's Bazaar November 2007
SOFT LEOPARD FROM DIOR
The Paparazzi scan from the bushes
Simonetta-Fabiani's Culotte Suit
Patou's Short Crepe
Chanel's Cocktail Suit
Dior's Divided Skirt Suit
Dior's Hooded Evening Dress
Ocelot by Guy Laroche
Nina Ricci's shoulder-long monk's hood in soft gray opossum.
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| Saint Laurent's sand beige shirt coat THE END Story photographed by Richard Avedon Starring Suzy Parker and film director Mike Nichols Harper's Bazaar September 1962 |
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