A new gallery has been added to the Jean Patchett ad photo galleries dedicated to fashion photographer William Helburn known in the fashion photography community as the “Ad Man” for his extensive career in fashion photography. Gallery is titled: Fifties Fashion Ads William Helburn. This gallery features many of his ad collaborations with fashion model Jean Patchett. The ad photos show Helburn’s unique photographic style, dramatic flair and sense of humor in both black and white format as well as color. This William Helburn gallery is the fourth gallery devoted to Jean Patchett ad photos from the 1950s mid-century era of haute couture fashion.

Jean Patchett was featured in a Harper’s Bazaar June 1967 editorial titled: A CENTURY OF BEAUTY IMPACT

1867 – 1967

Jean’s photograph by renowned photographer Richard Avedon 1955

Avedon’s iconic photo of Jean Patchett accompanied the editorial. The editorial’s commentary on Jean read: “A more here-and-now look was that of Jean Patchett. She represented the common denominator lifted to the nth degree of sophistication.”

We are thrilled to announce “American Goddess Jean Patchett” will come available in December 17 2019, with book signing to follow in New York Boston and LA. The book about fashion model icon Jean Patchett is the dream of her daughter Amy Auer and cousin Daniel C. Patchett. The book explores Jean Patchett’s fashion career is written and produced by Robert Lilly and Lois Allen Lilly and is published by powerHouse Books. The essay and 150 iconic images chronicle Jean’s legendary modeling career that ran for 15 years starting in 1948 with Eileen Ford of Ford Modeling Agency and continues to the beginning of the 1960s. Jean was America’s number 1 model for 7 years and she is best known for the hallmark beauty spot a “mole” next to her right eye. Jean helped define the era of Haute Couture and was seen on the covers and inside glossy fashion magazines including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Glamour, ELLE to name a few. The top photographers of Mid Century fashion sought Jean for their muse. However, best known of over 40 photographers who photographed Jean is Irving Penn. None greater than Irving Penn’s photographic collaborations with Jean Patchett for Vogue. Jean’s photographs by Penn are legendary, and important contributors to the world of fashion, art, and photography, becoming a history of the 1950s Haute Couture. Irving Penn said: Jean was “a young American Goddess of Paris Couture”.

Here is a link to Amazon’s page for “American Goddess Jean Patchett” book where you may “Pre-Order” prior to October 2019.

A new exhibition mounted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art focuses on ‘Photography Manipulation’ before photo shop. Included is Erwin Blumenfeld’s iconic photo of Jean Patchett’s immaculate eye and mouth. Shows the process from the minimal image to final enhanced image as shown on the Vogue cover.

Image was on a 1950 Vogue cover, and has been used recently for a Chanel promotion. This image created by Erwin Blumenfeld is one of the all time Iconic Vogue covers.