Lisa Fonssagrives

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Lisa Fonssagrives

Birth name	Lisa Bernstone
Date of birth	May 4, 1911(1911-05-04)
Place of birth	Gothenburg, Sweden
Date of death	April 2, 1992 (aged 80)
Place of death	New York
Spouse(s)	Fernand Fonssagrives (1935-1950) Irving Penn (1950-1992)

Lisa Fonssagrives (May 17, 1911 – February 4, 1992), born Lisa Bernstone in Sweden, was a fashion model and the first supermodel.^[1]

Lisa Fonssagrives is credited as the first supermodel.^[1]

Her image appeared on the cover of many magazines during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s from Town & Country, Life and the original Vanity Fair. She moved from Sweden to Paris to train for ballet ^[2]. Fonssagrives once described herself as a "good clothes hanger".^[1]

She worked with fashion photographers which included George Hoyningen-Huene, Man Ray, Horst, Erwin Blumenfeld, George Platt Lynes, Richard Avedon, and Edgar de Evia. She married Parisian photographer Fernand Fonssagrives in 1935; they divorced. She later married photographer Irving Penn in 1950.

Lisa Fonssagrives died at the age of 80, survived by her second husband, Irving Penn and her two children, daughter, Mia Fonssagrives-Solow, a costume designer and her son, Tom Penn, a designer.^[2]

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References

^ ^a ^b ^c Rosemary Ranck, "The First Supermodel", The New York Times February 9, 1997 online retrieved September 24, 2006
^ ^a ^b Anne-Marie Schiro, " Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, 80, Artist Who Gave Up Career as a Model", The New York Times February 6, 1992 online retrieved March 6, 2008

Bibliography

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