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Is the New: Marion Cotillard and Lisa Fonssagrives?

by Natalie Hormilla

Ok, clearly we don’t actually think that. Anyway…

One for all you photo freaks out there:

Does the shot of Marion Cotillard on the Eiffel Tower shot by Peter Lindbergh (thanks, WWD) remind anyone else of the divine Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn on the Eiffel Tower shot by Erwin Blumenfeld in 1939?

Even though Lisa makes it look like a ferris wheel and Marion like a death trap, we think so.

Class discussion, please.

PS Just for fun, I’ve added two photos of another model standing precariously on another building that one of my old professors just passed along to me. Bonus points if you can name both the model and photographer.

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posted by guest

Nov 07, 2008 4:24PM

The one with Marion looks more... fake, I guess. It doesn't look like she's actually standing on it, it looks like she's superimposed onto it. Still a gorgeous image though.

posted by guest

Nov 07, 2008 4:25PM

The one with Marion looks more... fake, I guess. It doesn't look like she's actually standing on it, it looks like she's superimposed onto it. Still a gorgeous image though.

posted by guest

Nov 07, 2008 4:25PM

The one with Marion looks more... fake, I guess. It doesn't look like she's actually standing on it, it looks like she's superimposed onto it. Still a gorgeous image though.

posted by guest

Nov 07, 2008 4:33PM

It looks like Lindbergh definitly try to put a modern twist on the older shot by Blumenfeld.
Unfortunately for Lindbergh, his photograph doesn't capture nearly the same creativity and enginuity that makes Blumenfeld's shot so fantastic.. in fact, the girl and the outfit look rather undesirable! The more I look at it, the more I dislike it (Lindbergh's photo)!

posted by guest

Nov 07, 2008 4:34PM

that last photo is terrifying!!

posted by Faran Krentcil

Nov 07, 2008 4:54PM

your fashion recall is amazing - I can't believe you found that shot of LF. if only there were a game show for this sort of thing.

posted by cesarcmma

Nov 07, 2008 5:57PM

Awesome photos

posted by guest

Nov 07, 2008 7:07PM

posted by guest

Nov 07, 2008 7:32PM

this post sounds awfully like the one on www.fashionologie.com which was posted earlier.

posted by hipstersdontlie

Nov 07, 2008 9:29PM

with the election of barack obama, can we officially retire the "Is The New" meme? It's soooo tired.

posted by guest

Nov 08, 2008 1:06AM

the model in the other photos is most definately linda evagelista.

posted by Natalie Hormilla

Nov 08, 2008 7:30AM

you have got to be kidding me - unsurprisingly, i have never heard of a livejournal page called Fashion Fags until guest #8's comment, so sorry to burst your bubble. as for fashionologie, i really can't say why her timestamp reads 24 minutes before mine when that post wasn't even there by 5pm when i was closing up the site. but i'm willing to bet it's just a mistake.

we love when our readers are so inquisitive, but it would be great if you could turn those eagle eyes onto the photo discussion - thanks!

posted by tmistick

Nov 08, 2008 9:35AM

I'm not sure if that is Linda Evangelista... have no idea which building it is... but the clothes have to be Mugler!

posted by guest

Nov 08, 2008 11:29AM

The building in the last two photos is the magnificent Chrysler Building in NYC. Those photos are dizzying -- except for the one of Marion Cotillard, which I agree looks faked. But she's lovely, and those shoes are pretty drool-worthy.

www.style-spy.blogspot.com

posted by calvinshowblogspotdotcom

Nov 08, 2008 6:56PM

The more recent pic of Marion would look great as a horror movie still. It doesn't match up nearly as much in the gorgeous photography sense as the other.

posted by calvinshowblogspotdotcom

Nov 08, 2008 6:57PM

The more recent pic of Marion would look great as a horror movie still. It doesn't match up nearly as much in the gorgeous photography sense as the other.

posted by Ginge

Nov 09, 2008 3:32PM

OK, I love that something reminded you of a photograph from from the '30s. I feel a kindred spirit.

Also, I agree that the one of Marion looks superimposed, but it's still cool.

posted by guest

Nov 10, 2008 3:18AM

So that must be why Linda Evangelista would not get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day, cause there's no way in hell I would ever do that.

posted by guest

Nov 10, 2008 8:05AM

The photo of Cotillard really conveys the vulnerability that makes her such a stellar actress. She looks young, doe-eyed and terrified to be crawling away from the security of the structure. Sort of a metaphor for her career, really.

She's not a model, therefore this is a rightfully a-typical fashion photo in that she's not yielding the focus to the clothes. The Blumenfeld shot brings the dress to the forefront, while Fonssagrives is just blonde-model-without-fear-of-heights (only for purposes of this photo, not to suggest that she's in any way nondescript throughout her career).

This photo is all about Marion, and so am I, therefore it can stay.

posted by Miss Jeffrey

Nov 10, 2008 10:20AM

I don't think the last two images are of Linda! But Mugler shot those himself on top of the Chrysler building!

posted by guest

Nov 10, 2008 2:12PM

I actually got butterflies in my legs when I saw these pics- so afraid of heights...How do they get these pics? I always wonder how much of what I see is photoshop...

posted by guest

Nov 10, 2008 5:17PM

http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_fashinfags/2231741.html

posted by guest

Nov 11, 2008 12:46PM

The shots on the Chrysler bldg are by Thierry Mugler from the eighties, and that is not Linda Evangelista as some people said. I have the original book at home with the name of the model on it, but on top of my head I believe it could be Claude? I could be wrong, but that much I know. I think it was shot around 1987. - Caryle