Simone D'Aillencourt

Simone D'Aillencourt or d'Aillencourt (née Daillencourt, 22 September 1930 – 23 July 2017) was a French model and talent agent. Her career in modeling, during which she achieved significant success, took place from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s. She is best known as the subject of Melvin Sokolsky's "Bubble" photographic series taken in Paris for Harper's Bazaar in 1963. She had two daughters during her marriage to José Bénazéraf.

Biography Simone D'Aillencourt was born on 22 September 1930 in Vizille, the daughter of Leon and Anna Daillencourt.

Her activities in the modeling profession began in England. D'Aillencourt began her successful career in Edinburgh in 1954 after a visit by Lucie Clayton. During the shoot, the Bubble that D'Aillencourt was in was lowered too far into the Seine, which damaged the designer shoes that she was wearing.

D'Aillencourt made her final series of photographs in India, with photographer Henry Clarke, in 1969 after a successful career of 15 years. Throughout her career, she always kept with the trends over time, from the sophistication of the 1950s to the greatest freedom of clothing the following decade. which quickly grew, and then a second agency of a more modest size, Image. In 2008, D'Aillencourt attended the festival at Hyères to celebrate the exhibitions of Sokolsky's work. She died in the 15th arrondissement of Paris on 23 July 2017.