Sophistication and creativity in the Dovima collection

Hair: Manuel Mon and Gonzalo Zarauza

Photo: Pavel Zverev & Alina Paranina

Retouching: Javier Villalabeitia

Makeup: Tatty Dyakova

Style: Visori FashionArt

This joint collection by Manuel Mon and Gonzalo Zarauza is a tribute to the women who dared to become the first models in the 20th century. Women of stunning beauty who had the courage to model at a time when they were looked down upon. One of them was Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba, a young New Yorker who worked in a candy store.

Dovima is a nickname she came up with by adding the first two letters of each name in order. One day, while leaving a restaurant, fate forced the future model to cross the road with the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine. Soon after this fateful meeting, she begins shooting for the best fashion photographers in the world, and the Ford agency, where Dovima worked, pays her a record $30 per hour of work. The woman was elegant, sophisticated, and her mysterious smile was compared to the smile of Mona Lisa.

Dovima was one of Richard Avedon's revolutionary models, free and unrestricted. He photographed her many times, but the photograph that went around the whole world and which is considered Avedon’s most expensive photo is called “Dovima and the Elephants.” After the model's death, Richard Avedon said: "The last of the aristocratic, elegant beauties... The most remarkable and original beauty of its time."