Observing the year in fashion through obituaries confirms the sense that there is a real generational shift.
In 1966, the 18-year-old would be crowned Miss Montreal and signed to Ford Models in New York.
Her sultriness was played up on covers for ParisVogueand in photographs for the American edition of the magazine.
From left: Renauld White, Roberto Cavalli, Monique Knowlton, Claude Montana, Georgina Cooper, Peggy Moffitt.
Helmut Newton, for example, shot her as a protagonist in a love triangle.
For all of her youth, Haddon projected maturity and confident self-possession.
The 1970s were Haddons golden age, though she was to have another two decades later.
Polly Mellen with Richard Avedon at the CFDA Awards, 1994.
Returning to the US, she took a job as a receptionist.
And not a well-paid one.
Haddon reached out to several cosmetics companies, and over time, she made some headway.
Philip Treacy and Shirley Hex in 2012.
I became a spokesperson for my age, Haddon toldThe New York Times.
Haddon, who authored several books on aging, became a wellness correspondent for CBS in the mid-aughts.
She was also named a UNICEF ambassador and founded WomenOne, focused on education.
Mary McFadden at home in New York.
Online tributes attest that Haddons beauty was more than skin-deep.
Full of kindness,wrotehairstylist Christiaan.SaidVeronica Webb: Dayle was a sweet, spectacular woman.
Kindness was her hallmark and class was her calling card.
Betty Halbreich in Moschino.
See Dayle Haddon inVogue.
Its hard to say; but theres no denying that Jones was an adventurer.
From there shed traverse the globe; Jones co-starred inVogues 27-page travelogue to Udaipur in 1967.
Albertus Swanepoel and Caroline Trentini.
Along the way she picked up vintage clothes and a sense of self.
So I did the Montmartre biteverything for art, with attic rooms and cheap food.
Finally I decided to be just me, just Sam.
Roberto Cavalli in 2008.
That same year she posed for Avedon in Paco Rabanne looking like a goddess with endless legs.
That said, no amount of Dynel, however copious, could vie with the force of her personality.
Polly Mellen with Richard Avedon at the CFDA Awards, 1994.
Iris Apfel front row at a fashion show.
Opinionated, high-spirited, and effusive, Mellen was like the proverbial kick in Champagne.
Read Polly Mellens obituary.
See The Story of Ohhh…. | See Theres More to a Bathing Suit Than Meets the Eye.
Claude Montana at the close of his spring 1990 menswear show.
Read Vera Wangs memories of working with Mellen.
She was known for her signature gap-toothed smile and positive can-do attitude.
See a 1999Vogueeditorial featuring Georgina Cooper.
Hans Feurer at a Jean Paul Gaultier show, 2014.
Philip Treacy and Shirley Hex in 2012.
Hex also taught all throughout England, sharing her skills and encouraging those in others.
Read Shirly Hexs obituary.
A six-timeVoguecover girl, she was also namedGlamours 1962 Model of the Year.
Truly objects to marvel at, they were exhibited all over the world.
Its very important to have knowledge about the history of fashion, shetoldVoguein 2019.
We need to know the past to better understand the present.
Everything exists but is recycled with some evolution and another view.
Mary McFadden at home in New York.
Mary McFadden had a signature style: ink-black bob, pleated gowns, fantastic jewelry.
She used the same approach when designing clothes.
Read Mary McFaddens obituary.
Betty Halbreich in Moschino.
Read Betty Halbreichs obituary.
Read Peggy Moffitts obituary.
Albertus Swanepoel and Caroline Trentini.
A hands-on maker, he established his namesake company in 2006.
Swanepoels hats sold widely, including at Ikram in Chicago.
Read Albertus Swanepoels obituary.
Over time, her sketches became more abstract and expressive, as she explains inher artists statement.
Over time I moved away from drawing faces and a detailed articulation of clothing.
I felt compelled to express from the inner realms that encompassed the emotional and the ethereal.
Expressing the invisible became a means to evolve artistically and a way to express universally.
Modeling is very similar to theater.
Its making something difficult look easy, he said in 1983.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, White was known for his elegance.
Roberto Cavalli in 2008.
The host, designer Mario Valentino, asked to see them.
Cavalli rose to the challenge by applying his printing technique to the thinnest glove leather.
Valentino wasnt the only one impressed; Hermes wanted to acquire the exclusive rights to the technique.
I was flying back from Paris, and in that airplane I was thinking.
I thought, Maybe now, if I design one collection, I could meet a lot of models!
That was always a principle of my life!
the designer told journalist Luke Leitch.
More, more, more!
Roberto was a lion; his life was larger than life, says the latter.
Read Roberto Cavallis obituary.
Iris Apfel front row at a fashion show.
Read Iris Apfels obituary.
Claude Montana at the close of his spring 1990 menswear show.
Read Claude Montanas obituary.
Hans Feurer at a Jean Paul Gaultier show, 2014.
I want to know everything beforehandmodels, clothesso that I can imagine it and make sketches.
I shoot almost as if Im producing a film.
But, he added, I dont like manipulation.
I want to catch the essence, not something forced.
