Saturday, August 6, 2011

PAPARAZZI - THE CHASE 1962 -MIKE NICHOLS AND SUZY PARKER AS LIZ AND DICK




Suzy Parker in Lanvin-Castillo's Wide-Shouldered Suit - Mike Nichols looks on protectively.
Richard Avedon


 Richard Avedon's fashion spread of  Suzy Parker & Mike Nichols in a fashion send-up, scandal-sheet style, of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton fleeing from the mobs of paparazzi hounding them at the start of their love affair during the filming of Cleopatra in Rome 1961.

Lanvin-Castillo













In the November 2007 Harper’s Bazaar
140th Anniversary Issue Mike Nichol’s explains his part in the now-iconic fashion spread.




"It started, essentially, as a joke. Dick was a friend of mine, and he called up and asked if I'd like to play this gag on Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra," says director Mike Nichols of the now-legendary fashion-story/tabloid send-up that he and supermodel Suzy Parker starred in for Harper's Bazaar in 1962. "I said, 'sure, why not?'" continues Nichols, then a thirty-year-old comic. "I'd made fun of a lot of people at that point; it seemed like a great idea."


Mike Nichols
Harper's Bazaar November 2007

SOFT LEOPARD FROM DIOR
The Paparazzi scan from the bushes

Simonetta-Fabiani's Culotte Suit

Patou's Short Crepe

Chanel's Cocktail Suit

Dior's Divided Skirt Suit

Dior's Hooded Evening Dress

Ocelot by Guy Laroche

Nina Ricci's shoulder-long monk's hood in soft gray opossum.
Saint Laurent's sand beige shirt coat


THE END
Story photographed by Richard Avedon
Starring Suzy Parker and film director Mike Nichols
Harper's Bazaar September 1962

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