Like all great American legends, George 'Slim' Aarons was his own magnificent invention. Though Slim Aarons became famous for capturing the rich at play, the reality of his childhood was a far cry from the glamourous lives of his subjects. The Smithsonian once described the photograph as 'a Mount Rushmore of stardom'
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These are the exalted precincts of Comtesse Jacqueline de Ribes by way of Mick Jagger - both, also pictured in the book.Īarons set off for Hollywood after WWII to photograph movie stars like Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Marlene Dietrich, Lana Turner and Audrey Hepburn while freelancing for Life magazine. Alfred Hitchcock was so taken with Aarons that he modeled Jimmy Stewart's character in Rear Window after him. In his famous 'Kings of Hollywood' portrait-Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper, and Jimmy Stewart enjoy a joke at Slim’s expense during a New Year’s party in 1957 at Romanoff’s in Beverly Hills. Flip the page and there's the grand-dame Babe Paley, wistfully lolling about her cottage in Jamaica.
Guest, the society doyenne, standing in front of the Olympic-sized pool at her Palm Beach estate. It features the legendary photo of Joan Collins laying in bed in a silky negligee while clutching her pink poodle, the shot of Jackie Kennedy looking dewy in a satin evening dress, and the picture of Princess Margaret and Peter Sellers aboard the Aga Khan's yacht in Sardinia. 'I did the people in their clothes that became the fashion.' Now, a new photobook titled, Slim Aarons: Style, showcases a collection of the late photographer's most iconic images of the fashionable elite.
Published: 20:49 BST, 5 November 2021 | Updated: 21:45 BST, 5 November 2021Īround the middle of the twentieth century, princes, polo players, political scions, movie stars, and indolent heirs hopscotched around places like Marbella, Palm Beach, and the Amalfi Coast.Īlways there to capture their globe trotting antics was the legendary society photographer, Slim Aarons. His lush color saturated photographs of the haute monde lounging, lunching, gossiping and drinking in palatial splendor have become a source for present-day style icons.