Tonight, London College of Fashion launched “Carmen: A Life in Fashion” to celebrate the 80th birthday and 66 year career of “the world’s most enduring supermodel” Carmen Dell’Orefice. The exhibition featured images from Carmen Dell’Orefice’s personal archives by world famous fashion photographers including Irving Penn, Norman Parkinson, Cecil Beaton, Horst P Horst, Victor Skrebnesky and Ali Mahdavi. My favourite image being the recently commissioned piece by Ali Mahdavi, with whom I worked on the Wonderbra by Dita Von Teese campaign in 2008.
Image credits: Ali Mahdavi, Tim Petersen and Gleb Derujinsky.
‘Carmen: A Life In Fashion’ runs from Wednesday, November 16, 2011 to Saturday, January 14, 2012 at the Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion, John Princes Street, London W1; fashion.arts.ac.uk