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'''Linda Morand''' (born May 26, 1946) in Lindenhurst, Long Island, is a
writer, blogger and archivist, an authority on the history of fashion and modeling.
Morand created the Sixties Historical Preservation Project, an online
independent research project in 2006.
Its purpose is to collect, identify and catalog
the images of all the top models and photographers who appeared in the leading
magazines of the world. She enlisted the aid of a global panel of volunteers and
interns to find, scan and catalog the rare images that had collected which had
not been seen in thirty to fifty years. The team's efforts resulted in a
database of over 25,000 images from the pages of fashion magazines. The non
profit website is a resource of designers, fashion students, models and
photographers, publishers and others interested in the history of the fashion
industry.
Morand's interest in modeling began in 1964, when while starting classes at
Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, she was discovered by the top
model agency run by
Eileen
Ford. Vidal Sassoon created her signature style, a closely cropped
asymmetric cut, very new and bold at the time. See Supermodels Hall of Fame.
Morand's height of 5'9.5 inches and slim build led to a fast rise in her career,
Appearing on the fashion scene on the crest of the Youth Quake at the beginning
of the Mod craze, Linda Morand was noted for and participating in novel
futuristic fashion layouts.
As a fashion model, cover-girl and haute couture mannequin during the
late 1960s and mid-1970s, Morand was nicknamed 'SuperChick',(Cover: Mademoiselle
July 1966) She was a favorite of Mademoiselle magazine's editors
appearing in every issue in the later half on 1966. Mademoiselle, June, July,
August, Sept, Oct and Dec 1966 source miniMadMOD60s.com. She appeared in
Vogue,
Glamour,
Mademoiselle, Teen,
Elle and many more international magazines. Her favorite designer was
Betsey Johnson,
whose clothes she wore for many fashion layouts. Mademoiselle Magazine June 1966
Conde Nast, Distinguished Swedish photographer,
Gosta Petersen. and his assistant, the future super-star photographer
Arthur Elgort, developed innovative lighting techniques and experimented
with wide angle lenses, timed-exposure light shows and strobe lights
(Mademoiselle July 1966). She worked for
David
McCabe Didier Durot, Roger Prigent and many other top fashion photographers,
posing with robots, super-heroes, computers in
James Bond
type spy take-offs. The renowned photographer,
George Barkentin, worked with Morand, some pictures shot on the roof of his
famous studio.
Morand was also known for her uncanny resemblance to the former First Lady [[Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]]. Noted columnist [[Marian Christie]] wrote
about a meeting of the two women in a 1971 ''[[Boston Globe]]'' article,
"Resemblance to Jackie Pays Off", which helped to further Morand's career:
"Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Linda Morand recently met at that chic New York
"dive" where ''[[The Lost Weekend (film)|Lost Weekend]]'' [sic] was filmed: [[P.
J. Clarke's]], and the two eyed each other suspiciously. There was every reason
for the prolonged glance! of cool appraisal. The two are look-alikes 21-year-old
Linda being the younger, prettier version. Linda, a successful Ford model who
hails from a little town on Long Island, now is one of Europe's top models with
her face currently, gracing the pages and covers of the slickest fashion,
magazines, such as Italian Vogue, ''Elle'' and ''Jardin de la
Mode''."<ref>Marian Christie [http://www.faceex.com/lindabio1.htm "Resemblance
to Jackie Pays Off",] ''Boston Globe'', 1970, as reproduced on faceex.com
website.</ref>
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==European Career - Seventies==
Francois Lano of Paris Planning, the biggest fashion modeling agency in Europe,
made a deal with Ford during 1967 and 1968. Morand was contracted to walk the
runways of Paris for Pierre Cardin. She became his muse as he created several of
his legendary designs on her. She was photographed for the news media with his
newest collection, inspired by the Space Age. These photos recently resurfaced
in Pierre Cardin: 60 Years of Fashion Innovation published in 2010.
Her modeling
career took her on assignments throughout the fashion capitals of Europe,
including [[Paris]], [[Milan]], [[Munich]] and [[Barcelona]].Morand was based in
[[Rome]] through 1969 modeling for fashion houses Valentino, Pucci and Roberto
Capucci and playing small parts in a few Italian movies and TV shows. Source
Marian Christie Boston Globe.
Shortly after her marriage to French actor [[Philippe Forquet]], star of "In the
French Style" in 1971, she moved to Los Angeles where her husband became a teen
idol starring as General Lafayette in a popular prime time historical
mini-series for ABC called ''[[The Young Rebels]]''. Source IMDB After a three year
sabbatical from modeling Morand returned to Europe, where she
began to work for the agency known as Europlanning. Some of their top models
were Jerry Hall and Grace Jones.
In 1973. The fashion scene had changed. The look was at first very natural and
then developed into a 1930's glamour look, with red lipstick and vintage
clothing.
Renowned hairstylist John Sahag encouraged Morand to grow her hair long and wear
it wavy, dyed a rich auburn and wear dark lipstick. She introduced her new vamp look
in Vogue Italia. Vogue Italia, 1974
Her modeling assignments that season included walking the catwalks of major European
''haute couture'' designers including [[Karl Lagerfeld]], for Clohé .
Uber-photographer [[Helmut Newton]], shot a "paparazzi style" ten-page spread for ''Vogue Paris''
with Morand made up as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, walking briskly in the
elegant streets of Paris wearing Chanel etc. Linda Morand's name was
mentioned in the article. Hans Feurer photographed her for several layouts in
Italian Vogue, ''Marie Claire'', and ''Mode International'. <<<ref>>>Vogue
Italia Conde Nast November 1974. <<<ref>>> mmm60s.
In the autumn of 1974, at the height of her success, while appearing on the
cover of Italian Bazaar, with a ten page layout by Bob Krieger inside, and
several pages in Vogue Paris, Morand unexpectedly announced her immediate retirement to begin
to raise a family. She withdrew from the modeling scene, leaving Paris and settling for a few years
in Munich, Germany. Her first child was born in March 1975. She eventually
returned to the United States and had three more children, living for the most
part in South Carolina and Florida.
Throughout the years she stayed marginally active in the modeling industry as
the owner of a small exclusive modeling school in the Eighties, a national
photography studio in the Nineties and appearing in special bookings from
time to time. In the 2000's Morand developed an anti-aging routine based on
facial exercise and consulted with anti-aging companies. Source Fairchild In
1995 she was photographed by Annie Liebowitz for Vanity Fair and Peter Beard for
Esquire and Devon Cass for two beauty books, all showing Morand made up in the
Retro Sixties style of Jackie Kennedy. <<<ref>>>*''Made You Look'' by Denise Bella Vlasis ISBN# 1-928739-00-8 THRILLENNIUM
BOOKS- Publisher<<<ref>>>
Currently, Linda Morand is a journalist/archivist overseeing the maintenance
of several websites with the pictures and biographies of over 500 top models of
the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies. She has recently signed on to "The
Supermodels Hall of Fame" as an consultant and co-executive producer.
==References==
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== References in Books ==
*''MODEL:The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women'' by Michael Gross - 1995 Morrow
pp. 292 - 293.
*''Made You Look'' by Denise Bella Vlasis ISBN# 1-928739-00-8 THRILLENNIUM
BOOKS- Publisher
*''Double Take'' by Devon Cass and John Filemon Publisher: ReganBooks; 1st ed
edition (January 1998)
*''Stylist '' The Interpreters of Fashion - Style.com - Rizzoli Publishing 2008
pg.122 Joe Zee
*''Icons of Fashion'' The 20th Century - Prestel Publishing, Inc. 2005 Pictured
on page 89 wearing Cardin.
==External links==
* [http://www.minimadmod60s.com miniMadMOD60s Fashion Archives]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0603002/- Linda Morand Bio IMDB]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_August_3/ai_55337349
Celebrity Supermodel Signs with Fairchild International]
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