Dynamic Visions of Femininity (According to Vogue, Circa 1927) |

One of the last pictures included in yesterday's post showed a sensual Kate Moss on the cover of the June issue of Vogue UK from a photoshoot (allegedly) celebrating sport, style and the Olympic Games.

Yet the more I think about sports, feminity, style and modern women, the more other visions of women come back to my mind such as this portrait of actress Colette Salomon by George Hoyningen-Huene.

The picture was part of a 1927 Vogue editorial entitled "La Femme Moderne". During the '20s there was a lot of interest in the rapid social and cultural changes in the role of women and in female identity.

Clothing, accessories, hair styles, makeup, body language and fashion photography contributed to create a new woman, more independent and enterprising, as embodied by Salomon in Hoyninge-Huene's picture.

Salomon, who starred in three films in the '30s – Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique (1931) by Roger Lion, Les trois mousquetaires (1932) by Henri Diamant-Berger and Club de femmes (1926) by Jacques Deval – raced a Bugatti T35 in 1927, the year this picture was taken.

The determination in her eyes, perfectly captured here by Hoyninge-Huene, is similar to the determination seen on the faces of many Olympic athletes competing in London these days. Wouldn't it be great to see more inspiring features and photo shoots about (real) modern women and about their roles in our society in fashion magazines?

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