Today Xiaobian came to introduce you to a representative supermodel who can best represent the "New Look trend" set off by Dior in the 50s, and Richard Avedon, a legendary photographer who has photographed countless beauties, said that she is the most stylish and unprecedented aristocratic temperament beauty of this era, Dovima
Richard Avedon's most famous photograph for Dovima is the black-and-white fashion photography Dovima with elephants, in which Dovima gracefully turns around in a herd of elephants in a 1955 Dior evening dress— a work published in Harper's Bazaar magazine (August 1955 issue). It can be said that once it came out, it gained amazing attention and reputation! By 2010, Dior had spent 814,000 euros on the original of the photograph.
With her tall eyebrows, exquisite facial features, and even some people call her the "Mona Lisa of the 50s", she was the originator of the supermodels who dominated the major fashion magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1957, Dovima and Hepburn became acquainted with the film Sweet Sister, and the two became personal friends. (The cover of the magazine is Dovima), when Dovima became a "beautiful" Hepburn woman because of a few cameos, and almost stole all the limelight from the other party when she was in the same frame as Hepburn.
It can be said that in that turbulent war era, Dovima's calm and calm style contrasted with it, becoming a symbol of countless women's pursuit of fashion and a better life.
In the 1950s, most models were paid $10 to $25 an hour, but Dovima made $60 an hour, which was already a high-paying person at the time. But in 1962, she suddenly announced that she would not be a model and said goodbye to her modeling career. The 35-year-old was so tired of her family life that she was tired of fashion newcomers and had gradually lost her place, so "I didn't want to wait until the camera turned cruel" (I don't want to wait until the camera became cruel), she quit the fashion circle, London models Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy and Penelope Tree and other leaders of the babyface style gradually began to enter the fashion stage. ”
But such a big beauty always failed to meet her own lover, probably because she stayed at home for many years to recuperate when she was a child, her social circle was very small, and she married a neighbor who lived upstairs in Dovima when she was a teenager. In 1957, Dovima ended her first marriage and soon married Alan Murray, who met her second husband, and soon had a daughter. In order to spend more time with his family, he also reduced his workload, and also handed over the financial power of the family to his husband with confidence. Not only did she squander the money she earned, but she also abused herself. Finally, when she divorced her second husband, she found herself penniless. But it wasn't a night out of her miserable life, and her ex-husband reported to the FBI that she had kidnapped her daughter, so Dovima lost custody and never saw her again. After that, her life was very difficult, and then a bar owner came into her life and gave her infinite care and warmth. In 1983, they married, and Dovima was finally happy, but a few years later her husband died of cancer, and the heartbroken Dovima was devastated.
Four years after her third husband's departure, Dovima died of liver cancer on May 3, 1990, leaving the world with not only the most classic elephant photo, but also the supermodel career she led.