Word: horst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Photographer Horst and the jeweled ladies of the staff discussed me in that dispassionately critical manner reserved for models and their mute counterparts in store windows, and of course my self-esteem derived no benefit from Lisa's appalling chic...
...Paris and whose economic life force is the American woman's checkbook, his model was a reigning queen. She was Lisa Fonssagrives, the highest-paid, highest-praised high-fashion model in the business, considered by many of her colleagues the greatest fashion model of all time. Says Photographer Horst Paul Horst, who helped her get started: "She has one of the most beautiful bodies I have ever seen...
...blocks east to Fifth (where a garment is a creation, a line a collection and a dearie a darling). After a session with the hairdresser (Lisa's hair, which used to be black and then red, is now ash blonde), she rushed to a sitting with old friend Horst at the Vogue studios. Two hours later, she raced on (without stopping for lunch) to another sitting with Photographer Henry Gravneek. She retouched her make-up in the taxi. Says she: "It makes for the most interesting variations depending on which way the driver takes the bumps." As she entered...
...photographer, she to be a model. She tripped into the profession by chance: a young photographer asked her to pose for him. The results were sensational. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar fought to get her services as a mannequin; she has worked for both. Horst, one of the first photographers for whom she posed, recalls that she trembled with fear during her early sittings, but soon lost her stage fright, and became a top Paris, model. (She once posed in an evening gown while hanging on to the Eiffel Tower with one hand and one foot...
...fact, the real news of the festival was what it revealed of the range and depth of the Dutch musical gift. Dr. Anthon van der Horst's crack Netherlands Bach Society sang a glowing B Minor Mass. Along with symphonic works of Mozart and Beethoven, the concert crowds heard the music of such modern Dutch composers as Alphons Diepen-brock, Willem Pijper, Cornelis Dopper, Johan Wagenaar...