As a typical example of wartime escapism, the Rita Hayworth film Cover Girl (1944) provided Horst with the opportunity to produce one of his most sumptuous film-star covers in a montage of seven different portraits of the cover girl Susann Shaw set against a silk design. His picture of Loretta Young became an almost immediate classic when it was featured in a special edition of Vogue which included masterpieces of photography selected by (classic photographer Edward) Steichen to show off the first hundred years of the medium.
I’m predictable but I love that picture 🙂 The black dress, the dashes of red, the pose, the bared throat, the faraway expression on her face… It’s so sensuous. Ahem… Maybe, that’s just my interpretation!
Drat! And the hat… how could I forget to mention the *hat*?! 😉 Yet aaanother aamaaazing choice, Ms Vickie!
When I saw the picture I thought she must be one of the most beautiful women who ever lived.
oh yes *sighs*
Horst.
magical man.
quelle lux.
Horst P Horst – to my ears it sounds a bit equine – and I suppose a better artist’s tag than: Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann. Yep. Definitely better.
much better when he shacked up with Valentine Lawford – “Horst and Valentine are At Home this sunday” sounds lovely.
Such a truly gracious beauty. Even into old age…that bone structure…(can you hear twinges of jealousy?)
I hear no *twinges* – and I see only beauty, in the picture and in your words.
Dearest V
The Dandy just adores Horst.
Ever since a retrospective of his vertiginous almost architectural pictures at the National Portrait Gallery, why almost a decade ago.
Loretta is done a great service here… she’s a wonder!
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy
Her neck doesn’t look humanly possible – and yet, there was no PhotoShop in 1941.
Stunning! Honestly, does a bad photo of Loretta Young even exist?
Not one that I’ve seen… 😉
what a beautiful woman – what a beautiful talented photographer (one of my ‘idols’) – I agree with George Kaplan, above, his comments are exactly whay I feel about this picture.
Put up the Annigoni portrait of Princess Margaret! It’s superb!
The portrait goes up around eight or nine in the evening your time 😉 .
I always loved her tiny little nose. Not many women can be shot in near-profile and show nothing but farside cheekbone.
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