THE MAGICAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF DIANE ARBUS

Diane Arbus
Bill Blass Designs For Little Ones
Harper's Bazaar September 1962

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devodotcom posts on Diane Arbus

3/22/12 The Simplicity of Thought

3/21/12 Have A Great Day!

1/25/12 The Vertical Journey

12/31/11 Happy New Year

11/24/11 The Young Heiresses

8/14/11 Bill Blass Designs For Little Ones

7/12/11 The Full Circle:Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay

5/17/11 As You Desire Me

4/25/11 The Full Circle: Max Maxwell Landar

2/14/11 The Couple

1/30/11 She's As Mae West As Ever: Mae West

10/16/10 The Full Circle: William Mack

9/25/10 Mrs. T. Charlton Henry

9/05/10 Fashion Independents On Marriage

8/20/10 The Real Miss Cora Pratt

8/20/10 Miss Cora Pratt

7/29/10 The Full Circle: Jack Dracula

7/27/10 Thank Heaven For Little Girls

7/26/10 Petal Pink For Little Parties

5/24/10 Tokyo Rose

60's Fashion Icons: Audrey Hepburn-Vicomtesse Jacqueline De Ribes - Jeanne Moreau

PARIS:  The Hug

Audrey Hepburn in Saint Laurent's fluttering evening hug: a giant puff of organdie petal and feather flowers bubbling over with Parisian gaiety. Harry Winston jewels, Alexandre of Paris coiffures.

Saint Laurent's Feathery Train

Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes in Saint Laurent's subtly seductive short evening dress

Cardin's Plunging Cowl

Jeanne Moreau in Cardin's deeply cowled evening dress.

Saint Laurent's Evening Smock

Vicomtesse de Ribes in Saint Laurent's platinum gray satin evening smock over a dark, narrow pigeon-gray velvet skirt.

Cardin's Uncovering Scarf

Jean Moreau in Cardin's sinuous aubergine short crepe evening dress, scarf-throated, cut asymmetrically to bare one shoulder. 

Dior's Long Limber Line

Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes in Dior's long,lavish look

Saint Laurent's Slim Stem

Audrey Hepburn in Saint Laurent's glove dress; smooth as a second skin, graceful sheath for vivid slimness.

Harper's Bazaar September 1962

Photographs: Richard Avedon

PAPARAZZI - THE CHASE 1962 -MIKE NICHOLS AND SUZY PARKER AS LIZ AND DICK

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

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.

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