SIXTIES/SEVENTIES SUPER MODELS

Naomi Sims was the first Black model to be featured on the cover of Ladies Home Journal magazine. That November 1968 issue has been called a consummate moment of the Black is Beautiful movement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/fashion/04sims.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=naomi%20sims%20death&st=cse

Here is Naomi Sims' interview by Diana Lurie...

Lauren Hutton's Portfolio Album has been completed. Here are a few of her international Vogue magazine covers:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=16995


January 1968 American Vogue

By 1973, Suzy Parker had retired from modeling and was enjoying being a busy wife and mother in Santa Barbara, California. She shared the secrets of her holiday beauty routine in the November 1973 Ladies Home Journal magazine, photographed by Sherman Weisburd.

A new album within her Portfolio Album has been created for Suzy's Parker's Holiday Beauty Book 1973:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=99314

Christmas Coifs using a variety of hairpieces were photographed by Joseph Santoro for the December 1968 Seventeen magazine:




Susan Dey

With her long blonde hair and big blue eyes, Kathy Davis (aka Kathy Fuller) was a very popular 'TEEN magazine cover girl in the 1960s and 1970s. Her career was a very long one, over twenty years, rare in the modeling industry. She mad the transition from ingenue to sophisticated, sexy beauty.

Kathy's Portfolio Album:

Models wore pretty white Dancing Dresses to Make His Head Swim while doing popular dance steps in the November 1959 Seventeen magazine. Francesco Scavullo was the photographer:


Elinor Rowley...doing the Waltz
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=46264

On March 1, 1932, brothers Charles and Joseph Revson, along with chemist Charles Lachman, established a nail polish company they named Revlon (the “l” in Revlon came from Lachman).

In his book Fire and Ice: The Story of Charles Revson – the Man Who Built the Revlon Empire (William Morrow and Company, 1976), Andrew Tobias chronicled the career of the man “who started with one bottle of nail polish and a fine ear for female fantasy and built an empire – The Revlon Company – worth millions from them”:

Thanks for your help !

3 NEW photos have been posted in Tamara Nyman's Portfolio Album:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=25188


1968 Binella Ad
Digitally restored by VOGUE SPIRIT

COLLEEN CORBY was one of the all-time favorite SEVENTEEN models.
Starting her career at a very young age, posing for American Girl, The Girl
Scout magazine, Co-ed,Teen, Ingenue, she was already an experienced
model by age 16 when she first appeared on the cover of Seventeen in April
1963. The editors for all teenage oriented magazines knew they had a hot
property in COLLEEN CORBY.



And what a young beauty she was. She...

Tamara Nyman was featured in a 1966 Orlon booklet, strikingly photographed in black and white by Henry Clarke. A new album within Tamara's Portfolio Album was created for the pages from this booklet. Here are a few:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=96665
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=25188

Tamara Nyman was featured on a special fold-out cover of the April 1961 Bazaar magazine. Saul Leiter was the photographer:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=25188

A new album has been created for Jany Tomba, one of the most popular black models of the late sixties and throughout the seventies.

Looking at photos of models in magazines
they give the name of the photographer,
maybe the make up artist ... but not
the name of the model !
seems crazy to me
maybe this thread can help

It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of 1960s/1970s model Karen Bruun on March 2, 2010 at the age of 59.

With her strawberry blonde hair and fresh complexion, Karen became a very popular teen model. Yet she was versatile enough to be one of the top models featured in the sophisticated Black Velvet Whiskey ad campaign.

Karen modeled with the Ford Model Agency from 1966 to 1975. According to the agency, she especially...

I am a former photo assistant to Bill Silano, a premier fashion photographer of the 60s and 70s in NYC. I'd like to see if any models who worked with us then are still around. Sure would be fun to check out those days.
Charlie Marinaro
marinaro2@verizon.net

The editors of Seventeen magazine also published books on various topics with information and photos condensed from articles in earlier issues of the magazine. A new album within the Seventeen Magazine Album has been created for these Seventeen Magazine Books:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=96555

In the 1960s, Saks Fifth Avenue was known for their crisp black and white fashion ads. However, a colorful 6-page ad was featured in the August 1967 Seventeen magazine to showcase the new mod styles for young juniors:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=49875

In 1965, Seventeen magazine introduced guides about specific topics with information condensed from articles in earlier issues of the magazine. These 5" x 7" booklets usually featured popular Seventeen models on the cover, although the inside pages were mostly illustrations. The booklets sold for $.25 each, and an order form could be found in the back of the magazines:

In 1965, Seventeen magazine introduced guides about specific topics with information condensed from articles in earlier issues of the magazine. These 5" x 7" booklets usually featured popular Seventeen models on the cover, although the inside pages were mostly illustrations. The booklets sold for $.25 each, and an order form could be found in the back of the magazines:

From A Russian Magazine

Diana Vreeland was a very live legend. As editor-in chief of Vogue and before that with Harper's Bazaar,she was the quoted, courted czarina of fashion. More to come:

In 1965, Seventeen magazine introduced guides about specific topics with information condensed from articles in earlier issues of the magazine. These 5" x 7" booklets usually featured popular Seventeen models on the cover, although the inside pages were mostly illustrations. The booklets sold for $.25 each, and an order form could be found in the back of the magazines:

Could anyone ID this model from US Vogue 1966 for me? I had a feeling it might be Kecia Nyman but pretty sure that it's not!

In 1965, Seventeen magazine introduced guides about specific topics with information condensed from articles in earlier issues of the magazine. These 5" x 7" booklets usually featured popular Seventeen models on the cover, although the inside pages were mostly illustrations. The booklets sold for $.25 each, and an order form could be found in the back of the magazines:

Forties Fifties Sixties Seventies International Models Data Base

This is a collection of blogs and photographic retrospectives. It is a private website, a Labor of Love, funded by Linda Morand and donations from interested members. All donations go to the maintenance and back-up of the enormous archives. miniMadMOD60s is a group of volunteer editors who have made it their mission to find and post photographs of the top models of the Sixties and Seventies, an era completely overlooked on the web.

We specialize in the Sixties, specifically the era between 1958...

The careers of some models lasted only a few years, while others worked steadily for over a decade. These successful models were able to smoothly make the transition from one division to the next as they themselves grew and matured.

Mona Grant was a popular child model in the mid-1960s...
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=6067

Sarah Vane and an Unidentified Model enjoyed a day in the country as they modeled new styles of Fall coats in the October 1966 Co-ed Magazine:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=23738

Does anyone have information about Jean White ?

Jean Shrimpton was photographed by David Bailey for the Leather Logic editorial layout in the April 1, 1963 British Vogue magazine:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=13456

12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor starred in the classic 1944 film National Velvet about a girl and her beloved thoroughbred stallion:



From 1960-1962, NBC aired the television series National Velvet that was based on the 1935 novel and the 1944 film. Lori Martin starred as Velvet,...

Poor Dolores Hawkins tried all sorts of elixirs and remedies to get over her Fall illness. Perhaps the poem from a 1952 Good Housekeeping Magazine made her feel a little better:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=80371


Contributed by Bonnie Thomas

Crates of tea and tea accessories were the backdrop for the Fall fashions featured in the August 1958 Seventeen Magazine photographed by Ray Kellman:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=46264


Elinor Rowley, Dolores Parker & Unidentified...

Beautiful Cheryl Tiegs and handsome Steve Markham had fun making Apple and Popcorn Uglies with Karo Syrup for Halloween 1969:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4395



41 years later, Cheryl is...

Do breakfast cereal and high fashion go together? Yes, when Suzy Parker, Richard Avedon and a team of the finest fashion industry professionals were involved in these 1964 Nabisco Shredded Wheat ads:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=25110

Although American college girls were the main focus of the August 1964 Mademoiselle magazine, British model Jean Shrimpton was featured in many of the ads:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=13456

Although married, Helen Ryan was a very popular junior model in the 1950s. She appeared on the covers and in the editorial pages and ads of teen magazines and was a Seventeen magazine favorite.

In the 1960s, Helen’s modeling jobs for print ads and television commercials reflected who she was in real life…a pretty, young wife and mother.

Helen was interviewed about her modeling career for the Ford Models/Fashion Institute of Technology Archives in July...

Crocheted clothing was a very popular fashion trend for Fall 1969 and was prominently featured in the September and December issues of Seventeen magazine:


Terry Reno
September 1967 Seventeen
Photographer: Carmen Schiavone

In 1969, Lentheric Fragrances sponsored the First Annual Tweed Designer Award. Winner Barbara Abrams created this fall collection of tweed fashions for Country Set. Barbara was a senior at the Parsons School of Design when she won this prestigious award, and she went on to teach at her alma mater for 20 years:

5 NEW ads have been posted in the Ad Campaigns Album: Yardley Album:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=49861

Although this 1966 ad featuring Sue Murray and her big blue English Eyes has been in the album since it was created, here is the facing page showing the products:

Hi guys, here are more 12 covers of the 50´s I´m looking an ID. Anyone can help me? Thanks

1- Vogue march 51

2- Vogue march 53

3- Bazaar march 53

4- Vogue UK march 55

5- Vogue march 56 (maybe Anne Saint Marie)

17-year-old Stephanie Farrow, daughter of John Farrow and Maureen O'Sullivan and sister of Mia, was a high school senior and new model when she was interviewed for the April 1967 Seventeen magazine:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=24287

Sue! I had many of these issues. I wonder what happened to her.
I'm sick with the flu.:(

In the 1960s, teenage girls were taught good manners and proper etiquette both at home and at school.

Martha Branch and Marola Witt were the cover girls of the 1966 high school Home Econmics textbook Manners Made Easy by Mary Beery:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=18978

This popular Arpege campaign was very unique in that a male was the focus of the ad, even though the perfume advertised was for women. The copy gives us insights into the dating attitudes and rituals of the 1950s and 1960s:
http://www.minimadmod60s.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=49854

Seventeen's Beauty Workshop was designed to teach teenage girls the basics of good grooming, style, modeling and manners. The course was taught by local instructors in retail department stores throughout the U.S.A. Seventeen Magazine provided a 3-ring notebook of material for each participant. A special album has been created in the History of Modeling Album: 60s Press - Articles and Books About the 60s Album for a sample of pages from the 1967 edition published by Triangle Press:

In the mid-1960s, Seventeen magazine introduced guides about specific topics with information condensed from articles in earlier issues of the magazine. These 5" x 7" booklets usually featured popular Seventeen models on the cover, although the inside pages were mostly illustrations. The booklets sold for $.25 each, and an order form could be found in the back of the magazines. This one is from the November 1965 issue:

Fashions inspired by French school girls were modeled by brunettes Colleen Corby, Susan van Wyck, Florence Julien and Jennifer O'Neill in the August 1964 Seventeen magazine. Carmen Schiavone was the photographer:


Colleen Corby