Dovima
Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba
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Emerging from Queens, New York, she entered fashion after a Vogue editor spotted her on a city sidewalk, leading to an immediate shoot with Irving Penn and the adoption of the mononym Dovima, formed from the initials of her three given names. Her collaboration with Richard Avedon produced the celebrated 1955 image of her in a black Dior evening gown beside circus elephants, a photograph that later…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
