Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn (1911-1992) is this beauty, as delicate as a bird, who stretches her long neck towards the sky, places her black-gloved arm on a dancer's slender hip, keeps the straight posture learned at the barre, puts a bit of challenge in his smile.
Sophisticated chic, pointy nose and arched eyebrows which structure her face, Lisa Fonssagrives is in Paris, in 1950. She wears a Lafaurie dress between the black sheath and the antique drape which is strangled at her ultra-thin waist.
A bouquet of silk roses blooms near her bare shoulder.
This month of July 1950, the American photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) was in Paris to immortalize the Rochas, Balenciaga and Lafaurie collections, in an improvised daylight studio on the top floor of a photography school, on the Left Bank.
The images of this
Woman with Roses
will be the subject of extensive portfolios in the American, British and French editions of
Vogue
.
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Lisa Fonssagrives posed for Irving Penn in 1947…
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