Robert Burke and Slim Aarons |
Charles
and Georgia Kaufmann |
Tobie
Roosevelt and
Nancy Baker |
Beth
Rudin DeWoody |
BERGDORF
GOODMAN
Celebrated
Photog Slim Aarons
Signs Books For His Many Fans
Story by Roger Webster
Photos by Patrick McMullan
 EW
YORK’S premiere specialty retailer Bergdorf Goodman celebrated
renowned postwar style and celebrity photographer Slim Aarons
in the Hickey Freeman boutique on the second floor of their
men’s store.
Eighty-eight
year-old Slim sold out his supply as he feverishly signed books
for friends and admirers who braved a blizzard to meet the man who
has photographed everyone from Katherine Hepburn to the Kennedys
and Laurence Olivier to Truman Capote.
Mrs.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., aka Tobie Roosevelt,
with sister Nancy Baker and brother-in-law Harold d’O.
Baker, arrived in a buffed black London taxicab, from the chic
London Towncars company, driven by a chauffeur decked out in
perfect black livery.
Tobie
wanted to amuse Slim since they have been friends since he
photographed her in 1958.
Others
who braved the weather were Le Cirque owner Sirio
Maccioni, designers Francisco Costa and Thom
Browne, Michèle Gerber Klein, CeCe Cord, Anne
Hearst, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Bergdorf’s Robert
Burke, Chris Meigher, Annie Churchill, Fabian
Basabe, interior designers Lisa Jackson, Catherine Aaron,
Stephen Siegel and John Barman, Madison Avenue jewelers
Georgia and Charles Kaufmann, Ashley Schiff, Royce
Pinkwater, Colin Lively, Carmen D’Alessio and Sydney
Shuman.
Slim
Aarons, who lives in Bedford, New York, is acknowledged as one of
the most influential photographers of his generation.
During
World War II he served as a combat photographer for Yank
magazine. Later he photographed for such magazines Holiday,
Town & Country, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Travel &
Leisure, Look and Life.
Legendary
magazine editor Frank Zachary commissioned many of the
photographs in this book for Holiday and Town &
Country. In 1997 Getty Images signed on to represent the Slim
Aarons collection and now serves as the primary curator of his
work. |
