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Sixties Historical Preservation Project Founded by Linda Morand
DIARY OF A MOD MODEL Artwork by Angora Fox
Movie Stars and Models Click Banner above to go to miniMadMOD60s 20,000 Images of the Supermodels of the 60s and 70s Linda Morand and Alana Collins One married a French Viscount, the other married George Hamilton and Rod Stewart
Linda Morand as Jacqueline Kennedy Vogue Helmut Newton
New York, Rome, London and Paris in the Sixties


Pierre Cardin From the Diary of L. Morand Paris November 1966 It is my second day in Paris. I can only speak a few words of French. I am nineteen years old, away from home for the first time. Paris Planning, my modeling agency, sends me over to Pierre Cardin for a fitting. I will be modeling his 1967 Collection on the runway for private clients, exclusive buyers and the invited World Press. Diana Vreeland and all the top editors will be there, including my friends from Mademoiselle, Nonie Moore and Deborah Blackburn. The photos will appear in newspapers and magazines through the news bureaus. Vogue Patterns has booked me for their selections from the Cardin Collection. I am very happy that he had already decided to use me sight unseen, from the Mademoiselle cover and layouts. "I must have ze Super Chick," he has told Francois Lano, referring to my recent spread in Mademoiselle where I portrayed a Space Creature. I am very excited to get to work for him. He feels I have the androgynous figure he prefers to show off the immaculate, sleek tailoring, he has perfected, and that my futuristic space heroine image has the right image for his new line. We are in a Space Race according to Time magazine and Life magazine. Astronauts are being featured on covers of news magazines and the whole world is fascinated by the future, keyed up about who will be the first country to get a man on the moon. Cardin has a passionate love of science fiction, astronauts and the cosmos. He is determined to single handedly ignite the future, although Paco Rabanne and Andre Couregges are feeling the same vibes. His creations have the trimmings of science fiction and space travel. The fashion world is astonished at his space age 3-D shift, and his "white breasts" dress. Cardin raises skirts 4" above the knee and plunges necklines back and front to the navel. Read More
Sixties Models Susan Brainard and Linda Morand Along the Apian Way



SUPERMODELS HALL OF FAME Press release: Supermodels Hall of Fame 2 Hour TV Special Seven time Emmy Award winner, Gary Smith has been hired to produce and direct a two-hour U.S. television special called "Super Models Hall of Fame", Smith has closed a deal with executive producers Steve Jaffe and Linda Morand, who is herself a former top fashion model. Actress and former top fashion model Susan Blakely has been signed by the producers to be one of the hosts of the show. More celebrities are being considered as co-hosts. The program is intended to be a tribute to the super models of the past six decades. It will also serve to set up the "Super Models Hall of Fame" as an annual event, organizers said in a news release. The inductees will be selected by a panel of publishers, agents, designers, photographers and others in the fashion world." More info: www.Supermodels Hall of Fame.com



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