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US Vogue July 1969

Lauren Hutton wrapped in a natural dark Great Lakes ranch mink cape "Blackglama", design Emeric Partos. Silk turban by Giorgio di Sant'Angelo. Stockings by Irene for the McCallum boutique. Boots by Piero Nuti for I. Miller.

Lauren Hutton enveloppée dans une cape en vison de ranch foncé naturel des Grands Lacs "Blackglama", design Emeric Partos. Turban en soie par Giorgio di Sant'Angelo. Bas par Irene pour la boutique McCallum. Bottes de Piero Nuti pour I. Miller.

Photo Gianni Penati vogue archive

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I was told she’d already turned down the opportunity to pose for one of the most prestigious ad campaigns then in progress: the fur industry’s Peter Rogers’ “What Becomes A Legend Most?” series, for which Richard Avedon photographed top stars, past and present, wearing designer mink coats. Their payment for posing: the costly coat (each worth well over $20,000). Lauren Bacall, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland — and contemporary legends including Diana Ross and Barbra Streisand — along with Ava’s close pal, Lena Horne, were among those who had participated thus far.

Ava Gardner’s reason for turning down the opportunity: “I no longer wear dead animals on my back, honey.” And this was years before the founding of PETA! (x)

Many thanks @graciemonaco

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Ginta Lapina // Blackglama

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This ad ran in 1970 and I remember keeping just this page from the NYT Sunday Magazine.

Photo by Richard Avedon. The shot was not posed; he said something to her and she turned around to scold him - and he captured that instant which became the photo used for the ad.

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“Hollywood’s most representative “Great Movie Star” and the screen’s finest personification of no-holds-barred ambition, Joan Crawford created her own screen persona early, doubtless basing it on her own desperate climb from the bottom of society and pushed this screen image to the very peak of stardom. The outward manifestations changed, but the core of the image never altered: she was a tough, shrewd, determined woman who wanted the best things in life and would do anything to get them – even murder. “I love to play bitches,” she once said, and in the end, she came to symbolize the bitch-goddess success, the dark side of the American dream. She looked like a star, she behaved like a star, she was a star.”

/ From The Illustrated Encyclopedia of The World’s Great Movie Stars (1979) by Ken Wlaschin /

Born on this day: the fierce and regal Miss Joan Crawford (née Lucille LeSueur on 23 March somewhere between 1904 and 1908. The precise year of Crawford’s birth is contested although 1906 seems to be generally accepted). Pictured: the diva photographed by Richard Avedon and flourishing a Blackglama mink coat in the ad campaign “What Becomes a Legend Most” for Vogue magazine, 1 October 1969.

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Andy Warhol, Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, 1979

Andy Warhol, Judy Garland, Blackglama, from the Ads Series, 1985

Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, 1979

Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, 1977

Andy Warhol, Judy Garland, 1979

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Blackglama 1987

Audrey Hepburn

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Blackglama F/W 1970.71 Photo Richard Avedon Model Maria Callas

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Blackglama What Becomes A Legend Most Campaign 1963

Sophia Loren by Bert Stern  October 1963

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Leontyne Price for Blackglama / What becomes a Legend most? / Ph. by Richard Avedon

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Many legendary stars, men and women alike, posed for Blackglama Mink Furs under the ‘What Becomes A Legend Most?’ ad campaign from 1968 to 1994. The name Blackglama is an ad agency’s amalgam of the words ‘Black’ for the color of the minks used and the 'Great Lakes Minks Association' (GLAMA) of Kenosha, WI. Lucille’s 1984 photo session as spokesperson did not go well and she was very uncomfortable about the whole process. Initially, she was to appear in a less sophisticated pose with blacked out teeth and messy tousled hair reminiscent of her look as 'The Queen of the Gypsies' from her 'I Love Lucy' days. At the last minute she agreed to change her look, at husband Gary's request, and take a more glamourous approach. A decision she would later regret. "I heard the shoot was a disaster. Lucy was a nervous wreck and drove everybody crazy. Gary held Lucy's hand and reassured her. She blamed him for getting her involved in the first place. Way's (Bandy) was much too heavy and in the end Lucy looked mummified. The coat never fit right on her body no matter how they draped or pinned it. In fact it wasn’t even a coat at all—just some skins loosely sewn together.”—Lee Tannen, I Loved Lucy, My Friendship With Lucille Ball. #lucilleball #blackglama #fur #mink #adcampaigns #ad #advertising #glamour #legends #photosession #amalgam #minkcoat #minkfarms #minkranch #waynelvslcy #mummified #heavymakeup #ilovelucy https://www.instagram.com/p/CnPuucHPmcy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=