Lisa Fonssagrives

Lisa Anderson was born in 1911 in Sweden. She was a supermodel, dancer, fashion designer, photographer and sculptor. She was described as ‘the highest paid, highest praised, high fashion model in the business’.

Lisa Fonssagrives has been known as the first great supermodel. No model has surpassed her number of Vogue magazine covers. She appeared on over 200 Vogue covers. But her image appeared on the cover of many magazines during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s from Town & Country, Life and the original Vanity Fair. Her background in ballet was evident in the grace and poise for which she became famous as a model. Lisa Fonssagrives had amazing bones. Trained as a dancer, she knew how to move. She even moved from Sweden to Paris in the 1930s to train for ballet, but her 5 ft. 7 made her too tall for ballet. She became a model by accident. A photographer asked her to pose for him and the results were history. Although she described herself as simply a “good clothes hanger”, she became one of the most highly sought-after models in both Paris and New York. She married Parisian photographer Fernand Fonssagrives in 1935 but they divorced. She later married the renowned fashion photographer Irving Penn in 1950.

 

 

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