D’Aillencourt

Simone (1930). French model. She made her début in 1954 with Hardy Amies. Noticed immediately by the most important fashion magazines, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Elle, she began a lightning international career. She posed for all the great photographers: Avedon, Bourdin, Hiro, Horvat, Klein, Newton, and Sieff. She retired in 1969 in order to open the model agency Modèle International. A skilled talent scout, she discovered and launched models such as Vibeke Knudsen and Ingmarie Johanson. In the late 1980s, she founded a modeling school.