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...more to Lewis than portraiture and the '60s." Until then the decade had defined him. In 1961, he had lucked upon a photographic studio above Peter Cook's bohemian club The Establishment, which supplied him with a never-ending stream of talent wanting to be made famous, from Jean Shrimpton to Michael Caine. Less known were Morley's early photojournalism or later, more personal reportage...
Nearly three years ago, the leggy, blue-eyed model Cheryl Tiegs achieved an unbelievable victory. Her knee-weakening blondness had so dumbfounded the fashion industry that to be a brunette had become almost tacky. She was one of the very few models over the years (Suzy Parker, Jean Shrimpton and Lauren Hutton were among the others) whose names were known to the public, so that she was not simply the Virginia Slims girl, she was a celebrity in her own right who seemed to be endorsing the cigarettes personally. By being gorgeous, healthy and utterly unbashful about...
...hang around schoolyards hoping to lure pretty young Americans and other gaijins (foreigners) into the model industry; the proper International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo has had to issue a stern advisory to parents that it disapproves of this practice. In England, however, where Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton got their start, brutal taxes have persuaded most of the internationally known photographers to emigrate, and the business no longer flourishes...
...anointed, but every couple of years the ball of flaming gas that is the U.S. communications industry indicates that a new One is at hand. By assuming office she becomes the nation's muse, our new moon. In earlier manifestations, the Top Model was Lisa Fonssagrives, Suzy Parker, Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton. Now, lambent in the pages of Harper's Bazaar and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, ineffable on a talk show, utterly right at the right disco, a splendid beacon in the mind of every wistful teen-age buyer of eye enlarger and cheekbone sharpener, a poster pinned across Farrah...
Soon she was doing cover work for True Romance and Teen mag azines. That soon slides past the hard work of learning to be a model. "I would look at those photos of Jean Shrimpton flying across the pages of Vogue and I'd try to fly across my room," Tiegs says...