Funny Face Modeling

Years 1930-1950: society, girls and Camilla Morton Hollywood Glamourby

Throughout history, there has always been a face that inspired embodied and influenced single point in time. From Helen of Troy, the face that launched a thousand ships, to Cleopatra, the king who seduced an empire, the emperor, and Shakespeare has inspired. With the onset of designers and photographers, models soon followed, helping to shape our ideals, culture and fashion since the early days of the industry.


Lets travel the age of innocence, a time that began with collars and high moral standing even higher. From the Titanic to the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby, Josephine Baker, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, the boom of the accident, and the two world wars, each time a picture, and all the tendencies of his muse. The face of this time change was one of elegance, grace and ambition.

When Max Factor launched his line of makeup in the 1920s, only on stage or screen or ill-repute he wore. But it was not long before every woman wanted to add a touch of glamor shot of his life. The women had just received the right to vote, and that approval has been followed with a need to challenge society's views of women's appearances as well. Women like Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein creates empires beauty salon with products that were as accessible as their empowerment. Coco Chanel is responsible for putting women in pants. Elsa Schaparelli joint enterprise with high fashion and art, while Madame Vionnet pioneered the bias cut to flatter the figure. These designers revolutionized women's silhouettes, style, and women placed in the front line of fashion.

During this period, Anita Colby was the highest paid model, appearing on billboards and in magazines. She earned $ 50 an hour, modeling as a sideline to selling ads for Harper's Bazaar. The era of the subsidiary modeling really began when Vogue produced its first color cover in 1932. To be the cover girl has become the ultimate price, and modeling has begun to be regarded as a career rather than a side job.

After appearing in the movie Cover Girl in 1944, Anita was hired by Hollywood producer David O. Selznick as "female director" Selznick Studios. His job was to teach his leading ladies, including Ingrid Bergman and Joan Fontaine-balance, beauty and advertising. Grace Kelly, the model turned actress, completely transformed the star on the screen to real life princess when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. Never before has such a model has promised "happily ever after" to come.
Women are now turning to fashion influenced by the big screen, and the era of Hollywood Glamour model emerged.

But the line between actress and model began to fade. Actresses like Vivien Leigh, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe and could smolder on screen or in the first row, if fashion has its own stars thirst. At the time New Look of Christian Dior line began in 1947, became the new fashion designers and wanted their own muses and models to bring their designs to life. The fashion illustrations such as Erte and Rene Gruau, which were popular during the post-war now seems outdated, as shown in the Paris Motor Show has grown from a sketched photograph, attract customers and to invite the private press. Photographers Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon to Vogue to Harper's Bazaar was to show the world that girls were more than a pretty face. It was their lenses that
modeling in an enterprise, and organizations and design is born.

When Dorian Leigh Parker started modeling in 1944, his father asked him to file "Parker" from its name, as he did not approve of his profession. Model Carmen Dell'Orefice, who started modeling in 1945, once described as Dorian "so sexy.