Nathalie Herschdorfer, Sylvie Lécallieret al. (trad. de l'anglais), Papier glacé : un siècle de photographie de mode chez Condé Nast [« Coming into fashion »], Paris, Thames & Hudson, , 296 p. (ISBN978-2-87811-393-8, présentation en ligne), « La fabrique du mannequin : la gestion du désir », p. 143.
« But Vogue loved the pictures and the rest has gone down in fashion history; the Swinging Sixties burst into life, Bailey went on to become the most lauded photographer this country has ever known, while Shrimpton became arguably the world’s first supermodel. »
« Rarefied couture gave way to the miniskirt and the British Invasion in 1960s, and suddenly the fashion world shifted its focus from Paris to London, with its new breed of bad boy photographers and their coltish muses. English beauty Jean Shrimpton represented the transition from the aristocratic-looking, ladylike models of the 1950s to the youthful, […] »
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(en) Susie Orbach, Hunger Strike : The Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for Our Age, Karnac Books, , 184 p. (lire en ligne), p. 53
« Slimness as feminity […] appeared first in the early 1960s. Jean Shrimpton, 'the Shrimp', the upper-middle-class English woman, was the first mannequin goddess of the time who broke distinctly with the voluptuous images of women exemplified by Marilyn Monroe, Gina Lollobrigida, Jayne Mansfield and Brigitte Bardot. […] The original 1960s trendsetters of the fashion in body style and clothes came out of the ranks of the upper-middle and upper-class. »
« […] a collection inspired by the Swinging London photographer and especially by the era's long-legged, doe-eyed muse, Jean Shrimpton. A photograph of this early supermodel »
« Bailey still bears scars from his traumatic split with Jean Shrimpton, whom he made the Face of the '60s. When she wanted to wed early in their four-year affair, Bailey was still tied to his first wife, Rosemary, a typist he'd married at 21 and ditched after nine months for the Shrimp. But when his divorce came through, Jean bolted. »
« For the first 20 years of her adult life, Jean Shrimpton was probably the world's most famous model: the Shrimp, the Face, the It girl; »
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(en) Dennis Barker, « Leslie Kark », sur theguardian.com, The Guardian, (consulté le )
« The Lucie Clayton colleges, […] offered secretarial and modelling courses and advice on the social behaviour expected of young ladies aspiring to the aura of class in the postwar years. They also offered nursery training, and dressmaking and design, although after some aspects of modelling took on more vulgar shades in the 1960s, at the end of the decade Kark disposed of the model agency, which had earlier cradled such stars as Fiona Campbell-Walter (later Baroness Thyssen), Celia Hammond(en), Paulene Stone, Jean Shrimpton and Sandra Paul (now Mrs Michael Howard). »
« Bailey and Shrimpton first worked together in 1960 at Brides, a testing ground for Vogue photographers. […] by insisting on Shrimpton as model. […] "I wanted Jean," Bailey says. "She was just about everything to me then. I put everything of me into her. She was my total muse - I didn't want to look ...; at another model. »
« Bailey still bears scars from his traumatic split with Jean Shrimpton, whom he made the Face of the '60s. When she wanted to wed early in their four-year affair, Bailey was still tied to his first wife, Rosemary, a typist he'd married at 21 and ditched after nine months for the Shrimp. But when his divorce came through, Jean bolted. »
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(en) Dennis Barker, « Leslie Kark », sur theguardian.com, The Guardian, (consulté le )
« The Lucie Clayton colleges, […] offered secretarial and modelling courses and advice on the social behaviour expected of young ladies aspiring to the aura of class in the postwar years. They also offered nursery training, and dressmaking and design, although after some aspects of modelling took on more vulgar shades in the 1960s, at the end of the decade Kark disposed of the model agency, which had earlier cradled such stars as Fiona Campbell-Walter (later Baroness Thyssen), Celia Hammond(en), Paulene Stone, Jean Shrimpton and Sandra Paul (now Mrs Michael Howard). »
