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Simone D'Aillencourt or d'Aillencourt (née Daillencourt, 22 September 1930 – 23 July 2017) was a French model and talent agent. Her career in modeling, during which she achieved significant success, took place from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s.
- Simone D’Aillencourt, A Greek Queen Via Paris
- Simone D’Aillencourt, Born 1930
- Entering America
- Her Most Famous Photos
- Semi-Retirement from Modelling
- Modelling Agencies
She starred in photos by William Klein, Melvin Sokolsky andIrving Pennand was published hundreds of times in Vogue and Harper Bazaar. Arriving on the modelling scene in 1954 she had the perfect lady-like look for that decade, which she successfully morphed into – not a Swinging Sixties chick but a distinctly elegant Sixties lady. Her career, like m...
Simone D’Aillencourt was born on 22 September 1930 in Vizille, France. Her parents were Leon and Anna Daillencourt. In 1954, she came to London to improve her English. On a visit to Edinburgh, she went to see Lucie Clayton, the modeling agency. She signed with the agency and was immediately booked for several shoots. She appeared first in British V...
Eileen Ford, the model agent who was capable of making little-known mannequins into world-famous supermodels, saw her face in the magazines and invited her to New York. She signed her for Ford Models in the US. D’Aillencourt met and started modelling for Diana Vreeland which gave her the kind of profile in the US which she already had in the UK and...
In 1963, Simone d’Aillencourt did some test shots for a Harper’s Bazaar commission with the photographer Melvin Sokolsky. Sokolsky was really interested in Surrealist effects. “I was walking past a department store in New York, it was coming up to Christmas and they had these two bubbles in the window, and I remembered this painting by Hieronymus B...
Simone D’Aillencourt officially retired from modelling in 1969 with a series of photographs in India with Henry Clarke but she has done occasional shoots over the years. The last one was for the cover of JOYCE in 1996, when she was aged 66 and looking really fabulous. Diane Pernet, the editor who made the decision to book her for that shoot, said t...
After Simone d’Aillencourt’s official retirement from modelling, she opened an agency, Models International, in Paris. Her daughter, Béatrice Bénazéraf came to work with her. The agency was responsible for spotting Vibeke Knudson and Apolllonia van Ravenstein, who both became favourites of photographer Helmut Newton. It was very successful, and a s...
Simone D'Aillencourt ou d'Aillencourt 1, née Simone Elise Marie Daillencourt le 22 septembre 1930 à Vizille 2 et décédée le 23 juillet 2017 dans le 17e arrondissement de Paris 3, est un mannequin français.
Simone D'Aillencourt or d'Aillencourt (née Daillencourt, 22 September 1930 – 23 July 2017) was a French model and talent agent. Her career in modeling, during which she achieved significant success, took place from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s.
Aug 29, 2022 · Born 1930 in Vizille, French model and talent agent Simone D’Aillencourt began her successful career in Edinburgh in 1954 after a visit by Lucie Clayton. She posed for the British magazine Vogue and then went back and forth between Britain and France.
Apr 18, 2017 · Click ahead to see a shot from a Harper’s Bazaar’s March 1963 editorial in which model Simone D’Aillencourt is suspended above the Seine in a glass bubble, and more photographs from issues dating all the way back to 1939.
Jun 9, 2017 · Inspired by 15th- century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych it captured Simone d’Aillencourt as she seemed to float in a translucent orb that begins its journey in New York and settles...
