Lisa fonssagrives-penn, icone de la mode. une collection particulière

She's the woman perilously clinging to the Eiffel Tower, the mermaid in the Rochas dress, and the graceful model in Elsa Schiaparelli's “Lobster” dress: Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, a name inseparable from fashion photography. With her timeless elegance, she is at once the embodiment and apotheosis of fashion. An extraordinary presence, immortalised between the 1930s and 1950s by the world's greatest fashion photographers: Horst, Hoyningen-Huene, Blumenfeld, Dahl-Wolfe, Avedon, Penn, Fonssagrives. A dancer, model, photographer and sculptor, the multi-faceted Lisa is revealed here through a collection of personal prints, as intimate as they are fascinating.