Avedon, Richard

Twiggy, Dior's Spring/Summer Collection 1968, photo by Avedon, January 1968

Christian Dior Collection Haute Couture Automne / Hiver 1964-65

Dovima in cocktail suit of embroidered steel-gray lace and a black velvet hat with a border of cock feathers that ends in a swishing tail by Balenciaga, photo by Richard Avedon, Harper's Bazaar, October 1950

Dovima is wearing a black brocade suit with a shawl edged with black silk tassels and black velvet hat with roses clustered in back by Balenciaga, photo by Richard Avedon, Harper's Bazaar, October 1950

Penelope Tree in a silk and velvet tunic dress of orange cut-velvet flowers, full-sleeved and simply tied at the neck and wrists by Rudi Gernreich, earrings by Layne Nielson for Rudi Gernreich, photo by Richard Avedon, Vogue, Oct. 1, 1967

Dovima in tunic by Balenciaga, photo by Avedon, Place de la Concorde, Paris, August 1955

Richard Avedon's "Performance"

Sunny Harnett in coat called 'Discrétion', Autumn/Winter Collection 1954, H Line, photo by Avedon, Paris, August 1954

Sunny Harnett in pink and white cotton dress, the collar and cuffs strewn with rhinestones, by Mainbocher, white EMBA mink jacket by Ritter Bros., jewelry by Cartier, photo by Richard Avedon, Harper's Bazaar, June 1953

Benedetta Barzini, photo by Richard Avedon, Vogue, 1968

Donna Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto is wearing pear-shaped 30-carat blue-white diamond earrings by Harry Winston, photo by Richard Avedon, Vogue, October 1, 1966

Carmen is wearing a Diadem EMBA mink coat trimmed in Russian sable by Emeric Partos, photo by Avedon for Harper's Bazaar, Sept. 1957

China Machado in pink and orange silk crêpe shift cut on the diagonal by Rudi Gernreich, photo by Richard Avedon, Harper's Bazaar, May 1961

Jeanette Christiansen in Yves Saint Laurent, photo by Richard Avedon, Vogue US, 1972