Bridget Bate Tichenor | A Former Vogue Editor’s Surrealist Paintings Come With a Gripping Backstory
A Former Vogue Editor’s Surrealist Paintings Come With a Gripping Backstory
by LAIRD BORRELLI-PERSSON
APRIL 25, 2019
“In the News Today: Mrs. Hugh J. Chisholm, junior, in a coat of red and black broadcloth, red silk jersey dress. From Nicole de Paris.”
Photographed by Horst P. Horst, Vogue, November 15, 1939
“These evenings, ladies like ‘something on the head.’ Mrs. Hugh Chilsholm wears a mobile Christmas headdress of stiffened discs of veiling, jewelled loops, and—twinkling everywhere—gilded paillettes tipping stripped ostrich. The earrings: spays of diamonds, by Van Cleef and Arpels.”
Photographed by Constantine Joffé, Vogue, December 15, 1943
“Mrs. Hugh J. Chisholm, junior, chooses cotton for an informal evening. Red-and-white striped dress; Hattie Carnegie Original.”
Photographed by John Rawlings, Vogue, April 1, 1944
“Mrs. Hugh J. Chisholm, junior, wearing Adrian’s brilliant all-white alternative to the all-black dinner-dress. Its sleeves long, close. Its bodice wrapped. Its over-skirt caught up by a narrow shoulder strap of material as though it were holding up a train.”
Photographed by Cecil Beaton, Vogue, December 1, 1944
“A matter of ‘monochromatic’ furs, first of a series of atonal furs in this issue. Large figure: natural Asiatic marten, half cape, half stole, with flung Ascot. From Esther Dorothy. Jewels from Olga Tritt. Small figure: a closely wrapped winged tunic of white Indian Broadtail from Reine. Backgrounds of reaching perspective, ordered space, are architectural engravings from the ‘Iconographic Encyclopædia,’ American edition, 1851.”
Photographed by John Rawlings, Vogue, August 1, 1945
“Cardigan Commotion: Mrs. Jonathan Tichenor wears her red velveteen cardigan with an heirloom white satin skirt. (Background interest: her bed cover of spotted calfskin.)”
Photographed by Constantin Joffé, Vogue, December 1, 1948
“Cardigan Commotion: Mrs. Jonathan Tichenor wears her red velveteen cardigan with a slim black dinner skirt. (Background interest: her schoolmaster’s desk, a rare Venetian piece.)”
Photographed by Constantin Joffé, Vogue, December 1, 1948
“Vogue’s Eye View of Diablerie . . . the light side of magic; the quote excessive spiritedness unquote referred to by Mr. Webster in his Dictionary.”Pictured: Bridget Bate Tichenor and Jean Patchett.
Photographed by Irving Penn, Vogue, October 15, 1949
“Mrs. Exeter says: ‘I used to think that camel’s hair was for college girls and commuters. Not anymore. Here, for example, is my idea of a really Good and Handsome country suit. I’d wear it with a red cashmere.’ Coat and suit by Originalia in Stroock camel’s hair. Gold-plated jewellry by Monet. Sweater by Pringle of Scotland.”
Photographed by John Rawlings, Vogue, October 1, 1950
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