Jacqueline de ribes

Haute couture of the 1950s and '60s often evokes images of stiffly posed bodies in lavish gowns and models devoid of natural life. Photographer Mark Shaw saw things differently.

“I was born on July 14 - I evidently stirred up a little revolution.” Born Jacqueline Bonnin de La Bonninière de Beaumont on Bastille day in Paris, 1929, Jacqueline de Ribes made a namesake of herself as an icon of glamour and society. Her father, Jean de Beaumont, comte Bonnin de la Bonninière de Beaumont, was a French aristocrat and her mother was a Hemingway translater. Jacqueline's upbringing, although showered in French wealth and glamour, was shadowed by the hardships of war and the…

The Fashion Personality of a Great Beauty: Vicomtesse de Ribes. Photo by Lord Snowdon. Vogue, December 1959. Page 3/6.

Judith Thurman on “Jacqueline de Ribes: The Art of Style,” a new show at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum.

Comtesse Jacqueline de Ribes (born 14 July 1929 in Paris, France) is a French socialite and fashion designer. She is also a member of the...

Jacqueline de Ribes. Vogue, May 1984.

Jacqueline de Ribes at home, June 1986. From (@delicious.decadence)

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