spectacled birthday
Brazilian model Vera Valdez,debuted with Elsa Schiaparelli participating in her last show—grew up with Pierre Cardin, and matured in the salons of Christian Dior—the years of "The New Look". In 1954, Coco Chanel, who after fifteen years of silence had just re-established her fashion house. The two worked together from Chanel’s return to Paris after World War II (1954) until the her death in 1971. Valdez was photographed by the great masters from photography such as Helmut Newton, Frank Horvat, Willy Rizzo, Terence Donovan, Guy Bourdin, Georges Dambier, Guy D’Arcangues, Luc Fournol, Richard Avedon and Henry Clarke
