Richard Avedon

Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, France, August 1955.

"Dovima with Elephants was one in a series of pictures Avedon began making in Paris in 1947, the year of Christian Dior's "new look," when the City of Lights was again shining as the center of the fashion world."

 
Link to Smithsonian Mag, with a nice article.

Richard Avedon