Photographer Dafydd Jones’s new book documents the upper crust of the Big Apple in an era of gaudy excess: doggy canapes, ladies who lunched, and a ‘mob-like’ real-estate mogul
er face is covered, but you can tell it’s Ivana Trump from her beehive. The picture was taken in 1990, at a fashion show in the gilded environs ofhotel the Plaza. She sits alone, surrounded by empty chairs, as rapacious photographers press in from behind, while hotel security guards loom from one side. A trio of well-dressed guests appear to laugh in her direction.
The New York book is an evocative historical document, brimming with nostalgia and menace. Compared with today’s cyborgian beauty standards and levels of PR polish among high-profile people, the images feel refreshingly intriguing and human. Now, says Jones, high-profile people “are more sensitive – they like to control things”. At the time, the balance of power was different: “People liked being in the magazine, so they would appreciate the picture even if it wasn’t flattering.
When he worked for Tatler, Jones became well known for a 1982 picture of a suited Hooray Henry pushing a debutante into a pond. This 1990 image, he says, in which a pair of dogs squirm wildly, desperate to eat the bone-shaped canapes, felt like his New York equivalent.Ivana Trump, Fashion Group couture show, the Plaza Hotel, 1990
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