London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 80 pages. 56 illustrations, 13 in color. At 18, Bettina arrived in Paris hoping to become a fashion designer, but it was as a model that her career began. She later became the most famous French model of the 1950s, with fashion's leading photographers - among them, Henry Clarke, Irving Penn and Henri Cartier-Bresson - fighting over her. Bettina remains to this day a leading figure in the field of fashion. NOTE: This book has a light musty odor.
