Between 1950 and 1960, Suzy Parker’s face appeared on the pages of more
magazines than any other woman’s in the history of fashion photography. In that
decade, she helped sell more than $140 billion worth of cigarettes, liquor,
cosmetics, clothing, soaps, perfume, and other glamour products. She was the
first fashion model to break the $100,000 wage ceiling, and the first to demand
$100 per hour for a shoot, often consisting of fifty-seven minutes of listening
to mood altering jazz while sipping champagne and no more than three minutes of
fluttering camera shutters. The “It Girl” of the Fifties; undeniably the first
“supermodel,” a title that many who have followed her have attempted to
appropriate unsuccessfully; dubbed by Christian Dior “the most beautiful woman
in the world,” she was THE fashion icon of her era. And, through it all, she
was married to my husband, Pierre "Pitou" de la Salle.
Beautiful Riddle is their story, unvarnished, brutally honest, both
glamorous and exciting, yet tragic. This is the true story of Suzy Parker during
her heyday of the "Fabulous Fifties," as told to me by the one person who knew
her best, who was at her side throughout the entire decade, who lived with her
and loved her, and came to understand the demons that eventually destroyed her.
Bérénice de la Salle
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