icon - margaux hemingway

"beauty that's good for you" photographed by francesco scavullo for vogue us, april 1975

photographed by helmut newton, place vendome, paris

"beauty that's good for you" photographed by francesco scavullo for vogue us, april 1975

photographed by elliott erwitt, 1975

cosmopolitan, 1975

for babe, 1977

vogue brasil, 1970s

with cary grant at studio 54

"beauty that's good for you" photographed by francesco scavullo for vogue us, april 1975

1976

with sister mariel

at her wedding to errol wetson, june 21, 1975

photographed by barry lategan for vogue, 1976

1976

margaux hemingway was such a huge model when i was a girl - she was in the same category as kim alexis & brooke shields - that all american beauty with full brows & a strong face. certain products take me back immediately - bonne bell, charlie, love's baby soft and of course, babe.  my mom didn't wear it but i remember seeing it at my aunts house on the dresser.  hemingway was the face for babe & received a million dollar contract from it's maker fabergé - the first model to do so.

her famous quote, told to a hollywood producer, was that she was 5 foot 12 inches - men are 6 feet, women are 5 feet 12 inches.  after many years of battling depression, she sadly committed suicide one day before her famous grandfather,  on july 1, 1996 at the age of 41.

the story-tellers, part 47

françoise hardy

night call, paris, photographed by helmut newton, 1974

patricia arquette in david lynch's lost highway, 1997

vogue paris photographed by guy bourdon, ca. 1970s

clint eastwood on pay phone, ca. 1960s

car phone, ca. 1950s

model on the phone with a cigarette in hand, pearly green polish by revlon, black and white shirts from saint laurent rive gauche, silver ring and earrings by donald stannard, photographed by kourken pakchanian,  ca. 1972

mark m. in phone booth photographed by nan goldin, 1980

ava gardner, ca. 1946

video phone, ericsson, 1969

see kids, nothing is new. we had car phones, video phones & green nail polish waaaaay back then!

the story-tellers, part 46

chassure, a shoe and eiffel tower, paris, photographed by frank horvat, 1974

ombre de la tour eiffel, paris, photographed by germaine krull, ca. 1925-1930

autochrome of eiffel tower photographed by by albert kahn, ca. 1909

eiffel tower photographed by man ray, 1922

champs de mars, vue de la tour eiffel photographed by ilse bing, 1951

eiffel tower, paris, photographed by helmut newton, 1974

eiffel tower photographed by sabine weiss, 1952

the eiffel tower from passy photographed by andré kertész, 1935

icon - catherine deneuve

in luis bunuel’s “belle du jour”, photograph by raymond voinquel, 1967

photograph by richard avedon, ca. 1970s

photograph by milton greene

chanel nº5, 1979

with husband david bailey, may 5, 1966

1964

photographed by helmut newton, 1976

before a press conference for "belle de jour',  new york, 1968

1963

with husband roger vadim, ca. 1962

with sister françoise dorleac

in "the hunger"

with marcello mastroianni, ca. early 1970s

during the filming of roman polanski's "repulsion", 1965

photograph by raymond depardon

with yves saint laurent

catherine deneuve was my first blonde icon.....i can't really say the first time i saw her, probably in magazines for chanel nº5.  i remember seeing the hunger when i was quite young (bowie fetish!) and just being mesmerized by her.  it was so difficult to pick my favorite images of her - she is just so beyond stunning.  she was the epitome of class & otherness - so glamorous, so beautiful, so blond, so french. oh la la.  still going strong & still beautiful.  & i am still obsessed with her hair color!!