So I was wandering around Strand bookstore (Union Square), more specifically the photography section, and I picked up this book that looked familiar, Jeanloup Sieff's "Torses Nus".
I vaguely remember as a kid my mother having one of these lying around the house. He had given her a signed copy because she worked with him often. I excitedly flipped through and found her portrait.
Cool, huh?? It was strange finding this picture of my mother so far from home, and her doing years ago what I had travelled all the way to New York City to do.
There was more of his work floating around the photography section, here is a couple.
I recognise her legs instantly hahaha! Not only because of their shape but also because she had the original tears (among many others) hanging up in the house I grew up in. I'm sure they would be worth something now days, but I know she would never part with them. He was an amazing photographer that evidently worshipped the female form, and his work is a major contribution to fashion history.
This was awesome and made my whole day!
This was awesome and made my whole day!
