The above picture of Lisa Fonssagrives at the Eiffel Tower is one of the most famous,amazing and inspiring photos in the history of fashion.Fonssagrives’ pose was emulated innumerable times in fashion photography.In 2008 Peter Lindberg revisited the scene with Marion Cotillard for a Dior handbag advertisement (picture below).Erwin Blumenfeld’s original set of photos feauturing Lisa Fonssagrives swinging from the Eiffel Tower in a Lucien Lelong dress appeared in May 1939 in Vogue.
It was the begining of an era when the muses of yesterday gave way to a new form of feminine beauty-the supermodel.
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