MARK FRECHETTE - AT HIS PEAK IN PEAK FORM

Kilgour, French and Stanbury

Shirt and Ascot - Barney's

For a New American Hero, Modern Greats Worn By Mark Frechette in Vogue November 1969

Marc Bohan for Christian Dior Monsieur

“Antonioni’s call for a new American hero was answered by Mark Frechette, a twenty-two-year-old blue-eyed dark-haired  Massachusetts stone-mason.  This American man of the hour stars in Antonioni’s American film debut, Zabrinskie Point.”

Vogue November 15, 1969

Cardin U.S.A.

Top Right - Franklin Bober for Clinton Swan

Bottom - Polo by Ralph Lauren

Flash Forward six years and Dave O’Brian’s, The Sorry Life & Death of Mark Frechette, (Rolling Stone #199 November 6, 1975, p.32) details the story of a promising chance encounter turned sour.

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Mark Frechette 

Vogue November 1969

Photography: Richard Avedon

 Geoffrey Beene

Mark Frechette

December 1947 - September 1975

Once a Great Beauty