Hélène Gordon-Lazareff

Career Gordon-Lazareff began her career as an ethnologist. From January to April 1935, she contributed to the Sahara-Sudan ethnographic expedition led by Marcel Griaule. She mainly investigated totemism and women in Dogon country. She was a journalist at Marie Claire.

After the outbreak of World War II, she left Paris for New York City with her husband [Pierre] Lazareff, director of . Her husband worked for Voice of America She had set up the offices two floors above those of , at No. 100 of in Paris. Colour photography and flash were not yet the norm in Post-War France, and the first covers of were thus photographed in Manhattan. She had borrowed French accessories, including 15 "" hats for these covers. In her book, , Giroud describes Gordon-Lazareff as "a brilliant, young woman".

In 1949,

In 1958, she collaborated with to create a clothing line under the brand. She left office in September 1972.

At Georges Pompidou's request, the Hachette Group paid Gordon-Lazareff her full salary as chief executive of magazine until her death.

She married [Pierre] Lazareff, founder of , in April 1939 in Paris.

Suffering from Alzheimer's disease, Gordon-Lazareff experienced increasing difficulties after the death of her husband in 1972.

Death On 16 February 1988, Gordon-Lazareff died at her property in . She was buried at in Paris.