Lisa Fonssagrives | |
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| Born | Lisa Birgitta Bernstone 17 May 1911 Västra Götaland County, Sweden |
| Died | 4 February 1992 (aged 80) New York City, U.S. |
| Other names | Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn |
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| Children | 2, including Mia Fonssagrives-Solow |
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| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1] |
| Hair color | Blonde[2] |
Lisa Fonssagrives (born Lisa Birgitta Bernstone;[4] 17 May 1911 – 4 February 1992), was a Swedish model, dancer, sculptor, and photographer. She is widely credited with having been the first supermodel.[5][6][7]
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Biography
Lisa Fonssagrives was born Lisa Birgitta Bernstone on 17 May 1911, in Sweden Uddevalla[3]) and raised in Uddevalla.[4] As a child, she took up painting, sculpting and dancing. She went to Mary Wigman's school in Berlin and studied art and dance. After returning to Sweden, she opened a dance school.[8] She moved from Sweden to Paris to train for ballet (after participating with choreographer Astrid Malmborg in an international competition) and worked as a private dance teacher with Fernand Fonssagrives,[8] which then led to a modeling career.[3] She would say that modeling was "still dancing".[9]
While in Paris in 1936, the photographer Willy Maywald saw her in an elevator and asked her to model hats for him.[8] The photographs were then sent to Vogue, and the photographer Horst P. Horst took some test photographs of her.[5][8] In July 1939, she appeared in the German illustrated weekly Der Stern and was photographed also by André Steiner.[10]
Before Fonssagrives came to the United States in 1939, she was already a top model.[11] Her image appeared on the cover of many magazines during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s,[12][9] including Town & Country, Life, Time, Vogue, and the original Vanity Fair. She was reported to be "the highest paid, highest praised, high fashion model in the business".[12][13][14] Fonssagrives once described herself as a "good clothes hanger".[5]
Fonssagrives worked with many noted fashion photographers, including George Hoyningen-Huene, Man Ray, Erwin Blumenfeld, George Platt Lynes, Richard Avedon, and Edgar de Evia. She married Parisian photographer Fernand Fonssagrives in 1935; they divorced in 1949.[15] She married American photographer Irving Penn in 1950 and became his muse.[7][16]
After her modeling career ended, she designed a leisurewear clothing line for Lord & Taylor.[3] She went on to become a sculptor in the 1960s and was represented by the Marlborough Gallery in Manhattan.[3]
Fonssagrives died, aged 80, in New York, survived by her second husband, Irving Penn, and her two children: her daughter Mia Fonssagrives-Solow, a fashion and jewelry designer and sculptor who was married to real estate developer and art collector Sheldon Solow, and her son, Tom Penn, a designer.[3]
The Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn Trust was founded in 1994.[17]
In 1995, a retrospective exhibition of her work was held at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Irving Penn donated photographs to the museum in her memory.[18]
The Elton John photography collection auction, held by Christie's on 15 October 2004, sold a 1950 Irving Penn photograph of Fonssagrives for $57,360.[19]
References
- ^ "ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby". Time. 19 September 1949. p. 6. Archived from the original on 17 June 2008.
- ^ "ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby". Time. 19 September 1949. p. 5. Archived from the original on 2 June 2007.
- ^ a b c d e f Anne-Marie Schiro (6 February 1992). "Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, 80, Artist Who Gave Up Career as a Model". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 March 2008.
- ^ a b Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn; Nicholas Callaway; Alexander Liberman; Alexandra Arrowsmith (1994). Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn: sculpture, prints and drawings.
- ^ a b c Rosemary Ranck (9 February 1997). "The First Supermodel". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 September 2006.
- ^ Alexander, Hilary (30 June 2008). "The thigh's the limit at Christian Dior". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 17 March 2009.
the iconic first super-model, Lisa Fonssagrives
- ^ a b Laneri, Raquel (17 April 2017). "The world's first supermodel was more than 'just a clothes-hanger'". Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ a b c d Seidner, David (Spring 1985). "Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn". Bomb Magazine. Archived from the original on 16 April 2013.
- ^ a b Crystal Renn & Marjorie Ingall (8 September 2009). Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-0123-0.
- ^ Warren, Lynne (2005). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set. Lynn Warren. London. p. 1490. ISBN 978-0-203-94338-0. OCLC 1048820737.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Noted Model Designs Late Late Wear". Life. 18 November 1957.
- ^ a b Wyllie, Alice (10 January 2008). "An enduring model". The Scotsman. Edinburgh.
- ^ "ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby". Time. 19 September 1949. Archived from the original on 17 June 2008.
- ^ Robertson, Nan (25 May 1956). "Model Life: Mannequin Turns Fashion Creator; Lisa Fonssagrives Uses Tricks She Learned On Runway to Develop Convertible Styles(subscription required)". The New York Times.
- ^ Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn: Sculpture, Prints and Drawings (exhibition catalogue), Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn Trust, 1994. p. 19.
- ^ Brubach, Holly (8 February 1998). "Style; A State of Grace". The New York Times.
...Lisa Fonssagrives, who in retrospect surely qualifies as the first supermodel.
- ^ "The Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn Trust | Fifth Ave New York, NY | Cause IQ". www.causeiq.com. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ "Press release". www.modernamuseet.se. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ Elton John photo collection nets $900,000 USA Today. 15 October 2004.
Bibliography
- Fonssagrives, Fernand; Muir, Robin (essay), Fernand Fonssagrives; An Eye for Beauty, London: Guiding Light, 2003.
- Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn: Bronzes (exhibition catalogue), New York: Marlborough Gallery, Inc., 1983.
- Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn: Sculpture, Prints and Drawings (exhibition catalogue), Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn Trust, 1994.
- Gross, Michael: Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, New York: W. Morrow, 1995, ISBN 0-688-12659-6
- Seidner, David (ed): Lisa Fonssagrives: Three Decades of Classic Fashion Photography, New York: Vendome Press, 1996, ISBN 0-86565-978-8
Further reading
External links
- The Internet Fashion Database
- Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, a Multi Talent, bio and photo gallery
- Photographs of Fernand and Lisa Fonssagrives at the Museum of the City of New York
- Mia Fonssagrives-Solow website
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