What I am not thinking about from this point on: how long it took me to get through October 15, 1959, how much bigger this issue is (50 pages more), how dense this issue is - ten pages of PATA. What I have been thinking about: how to march it along. Another thing I have not been thinking about: stopping. So -- let's go.
Whatever happened to November 1959? Of the two issues - I sold one and lost the other. Mercifully. Also, mercifully, only one issue in December.
I don't think there will be a look back at the 1950s. Vogue looks back all the time now; rather it takes a look back. Vogue 1959 seems not to have; it has been so unrelentingly backward facing in tone that it seems not to have occurred to anyone that it is going forward at all. First insight this issue.
What does Vogue want us to learn this month? I am most looking forward to "Art Bargains With a Future."
So, the cover: Who is she? I am terrible at identifying models. Someone please help. I do think she probably needs braces - her jaw seems a bit askew.
Photographer was by Sante Forlano. All I could find out about him was that he was born in France and died of a heart attack at 49 in 1973 at his home at 327 Lexington Avenue in NYC. He is "Sante Forlano" in the Social Security Death Index, but I suspect that isn't his full name. The house was demolished fairly recently, but had a significant history. I found it under "Friends of Tesla," a site about Nicola Tesla. The house belonged to Robert Underwood Johnson, publisher of The Century, and, with John Muir -- practically a neighbor -- "planned and forwarded" Yosemite Park.
Fashion notes: the white stuff is cashmere, jewels by Tiffany.
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ooSANTE FORLANO WAS MY BROTHER. HE WAS BORN IN PHILA.PA I AM ROSEMARIE FORLANO AUCELLO.THEIR WAS FIVE IN OUR FAMILY, RITA, SANTE, AUGUST JR. ROSEMARIE AND SANDRA. SANDRA AND I ARE THE ONLY ONE'S LIVING. SANTE DID LIVE IN NY. AND ALSO PARIS. SANTE PASS IN MARCH.
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