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1938

  • Work on this object began.

2023

2025

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Photograph, Dorothy Lamour in "Newest Siren," Photoplay Magazine

This is a Photograph. It was designed by Dorothy Wright Liebes and published by Macfadden Publications. It is dated March 1938. Its medium is reproduction. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.


In fashion and film, the sensual tactility of Liebes’s fabric was used as a counterpoint to the porcelain skin and glossy hair of silver screen stars like Dorothy Lamour (1914–1996).

It is credited Private collection.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.

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