Beautiful Fashion Portraits of Monique Chevalier From the 1950s and 1960s

Monique Chevalier was a French Fashion model. She was born as Monique Graebener in Germany, in 1937, and educated in England and Switzerland. Chevalier began her professional career in the 1950s as a teenage model, working with the likes of Regina Relang, Georges Saad, and Philippe Pottier; even then, every picture she took came stamped with an imperiously confident gaze.

She moved to New York City and signed with the Ford Agency, switched surname to Lefebvre and then Chevalier, and became one of the city’s most popular models. Over the following decade, she continued to work on both sides of the Atlantic, with Irving Penn, Karen Radkai, Richard Rutledge, and many others.

Here below are some stunning fashion portraits of Monique Chevalier from the 1950s and 1960s.

#1 Monique Chevalier in Lutetia EMBA mink coat, 1958

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#2 Monique Chevalier in brilliant lilac wool tweed suit worn with a hat and blouse of ruby-red velvet, Vogue. November 1, 1958

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#3 Monique Chevalier in chocolate brown wool coat lined in skunk fur worn over a white worsted pleated dress, Vogue. October 15, 1958

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#4 Monique Chevalier in raspberry Glen plaid wool suit, jacket lining and camisole of deep claret crêpe, Vogue. September 15, 1958

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#5 Monique Chevalier in Dior, 1960

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#6 Monique Chevalier in white lace evening dress with matching lace coat, the skirt flares in two tiers from a close bare bodice, Vogue. March 1, 1960

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#7 Monique Chevalier, Pond’s make-up ad, Vogue, March 15, 1960

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#8 Monique Chevalier in almond-green wool jersey suit with sleeveless silk paisley blouse, Vogue. December 1, 1961

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#9 Monique Chevalier in cinnamon skirt and blond cardigan of wool tweed over pink sleeveless angora and lambswool pull-over, Vogue. August 1, 1961

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#10 Monique Chevalier in lemon-yellow sleeveless sweater of lamb’s wool and angora, Vogue. July 1961

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#11 Monique Chevalier in pale blue jersey blouse, 1961

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#12 Photograph for ‘A Bouquet to Your Beauty’ campaign with Monique Chevalier, 1961

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#13 Monique Chevalier and Connie Joannes, the Avon Lady, Avon cosmetics ad, Vogue, April 1, 1962

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#14 Monique Chevalier getting her hair done by Kenneth of Lilly Dache. New York, July 1962

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#15 Monique Chevalier holding Fleming-Joffe snakeskin shoe from small scale. Vogue, 1962

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#16 Monique Chevalier in ball gown of white satin, narrow with high bow, and jacket of gold and bronze-colored embroidery cuffed in sable, Vogue. November 1, 1962

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#17 Monique Chevalier in light blue, three-piece suit in heavy-linen weave silk, 1962.

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#18 Monique Chevalier in long sheath of bronze silk, tile-printed in black, Vogue. May 1, 1962

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#19 Monique Chevalier in pure white short, full-skirted dress of silk crêpe, Vogue. May 1, 1962

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#20 Monique Chevalier in rayon crêpe dress in miniature apple print, Vogue. April 1, 1962

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#21 Monique Chevalier wearing blue dress in Moygashel Irish linen, 1962.

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#22 Monique Chevalier, April 1962

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#23 Monique Chevalier, Underwater colors by Dorothy Gray ad, Vogue, April 1, 1962

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#24 Monique Chevalier in bleached-sand textured knit suit with turtle-neck shell, Harper’s Bazaar. April 1963

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#25 Monique Chevalier in Jasmine EMBA white mink coat-dress, white satin tie and zipped closing in front, Vogue. October 1, 1963.

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#26 Monique Chevalier in slim coat of blue and white wool houndstooth, Vogue. January 1, 1963

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#27 Monique Chevalier, April 1, 1963.

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#28 Monique Chevalier, Vogue. February 1, 1963

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#29 Monique Chevalier, MacShore Classics ad, 1963

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#30 Monique Chevalier’s face in cut-out, photo by Tony Vaccaro, Home Companion, 1965

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#31 Monique Chevalier in bright red ribbed wool suit by Dick Dumas for P.R.I. Designs, 1958

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#32 Monique Chevalier in silk-satin chrysanthemum-printed evening gown. Vogue, 1958

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#33 Monique Chevalier in the end-all trenchcoat of vicuña and natural Russian sable, Vogue. September 15, 1958

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#34 Monique Chevalier in two-piece outfit by Kimberly. Paris, 1961

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#37 Monique Chevalier is wearing a bright pink skirt-sized apron in satiny cotton; the streamers wrapped high on the waist of a toe-length black sweater, Vogue. December 1958

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