° Before she became a global icon, a 20 year old Madonna Louise Ciccone was a struggling dancer in New York City. She worked as an art model for 30 dollars per session to pay her rent. In February 1979, she walked into a studio on 22nd Street, NYC, to pose for Martin Schreiber. These raw portraits remained in the archives until they were famously rediscovered and published in September 1985.
° In 1972, the worlds of high fashion luxury and counterculture rebellion collided when Hans Feurer captured the German It Girl Uschi Obermaier for Chanel. Known as the face of the 1968 sexual revolution and a muse to rock legends, Obermaier brought a raw, modern energy to the house of Chanel.
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