Name any top fashion designer of recent memory - Ungaro, Lacroix, Valentino - and Claire Atkinson modeled for all of them. Usually on the runways, but also in print.
And there are so many stunning photos of her that you can see why I am revisiting her so soon after having first featured her in August 2017.
Here she is in the photo above wowing the crowd at a fashion show in this exquisite Lecoanet Hemant number.
And while she could sport a very contemporary look, she could also look very conservative, much like the classic Englishwoman that she is, as evidenced below.
Color, black and white . . . Claire Atkinson shines in either photographic medium. How about a combination of both? The photo below, taken by Chris Dawes in the early 1980s around the start of her career, is a black-and-white picture that I colorized - or as she would put it, "colourised" - myself.
Full disclosure requires me to state that Claire Atkinson is a friend of mine, and of course I find her to be as lovely as ever. Which is why I'm happy to feature a more recent picture of her below, at a June 2016 ceremony honoring Paris-based Japanese designer Kenzo Takada for his receipt of France's Medal of Chevalier de La Legion d'Honneur.
Leave it to Claire Atkinson to outshine the guest of honor. :-)
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