FONSSAGRIVES Lisa (Model)

Photographed by her husband Irving Penn, Lisa Fonssagrives wears a "harlequin" opera outfit from 1950. Once described as "the highest paid, highest praised, high-fashion model in the business", Fonssagrives used to call herself simply "the clothes hanger". In the 1930s she moved to Paris from Sweden to train for the ballet. Here she met and married another dancer, Fernand Fonssagrives, who took some pictures of her to Vogue. She was immediately sent to see Horst; his assistant, Scavullo, later recalled, "She had a marvellous profile and moved like a dream". Fonssagrives was famous for her grace and poise, learnt from her ballet background. She called modelling "still-dancing" and referred to her poses as "arrested dance movements". She became one of the most sought-after models in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s and in New York in the 1950s. 

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