In almost every photo Fonssagrives' look - precise, angular, shrewd - bears little resemblance to anything going on in fashion today. The photo of Fonssagrives closest to the most interesting fashion photography today (Fernand Fonssagrives Le Model, 1942), shows her relaxing and laughing, en deshabille, her long legs in pumps draped over a high-legged chair, her face a reflection in a mirror, suggesting that reflection is what makes a model - her ability to reflect desire, even if it's her own. Le Model has the intimate qualities of a snapshot; it is prescient for revealing the dressing room, not the catwalk, to be the site of fashion.

 

 

 

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