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Photos: Richard Avedon at the MFA

"Avedon Fashion: 1944 - 2000" now at the Museum of Fine Arts through January 17, 2011
By RICHARD AVEDON  |  August 16, 2010

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Photograph: Richard Avedon

Dorian Leigh, hat by Paulette, Paris studio, August 1949

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