Editor’s Note: Richard Avedon is always in fashion. That’s because he was interested in who people—be they impossibly beautiful models, activists, or punks—were under the surface. Director Ron Howard has taken a similar approach to the late photographer and his work in the new documentary, Avedon, out November 11 on Netflix. The release coincides with “Richard Avedon: Hollywood,” an exhibition at the Gagosian gallery in Beverly Hills.
Avedon followed Diana Vreeland from Harper’s Bazaar to Vogue in 1966 and he stayed for 23 years. This 25-page editorial from 1967 features Veruschka, the model whom Avedon described as “the most beautiful woman in the world,” a woman whose beauty “demands something and you must extend yourself to meet the challenge or know that a kind of splendor is lost to you forever.” Nothing is lost in these images capturing Veruschka in movement; indeed, they document the symbiosis between artist and subject.
“Vogue’s Eye View: Fashion for Eveyone–American Dresses Have It,” photographed by Richard Avedon, originally appeared in the March 1,1967 issue of the magazine.
