With Gigi Hadid’s recent photoshoot at Kennedy Space Center, spaceflight once again is the backdrop for fashion photography. Photographers in that industry have found the allure of space technology irresistible since the dawn of the space age in the 1950s. Famous fashion photographer Richard Avendon photographed world-renowned supermodels such as Domiva, Isabella Albanico and Jean Shrimpton in front of rockets, sights around Cape Canaveral, and even a Mercury-era spacesuit during the late 1950s and 1960s. Gigi’s shoot occurred around Kennedy Space Center’s Visitor Complex in the rocket garden, Moon theatre and other locations. All the photos above - including Richard Avendon’s from the early space race era - were shot for Harper’s Baazar.
The models and photographers from above:
Domiva in front of an Atlas-Able rocket by Richard Avendon, 1950s.
Isabella Albanico by Richard Avendon, 1959.
Jean Shrimpton by Richard Avendon, 1965.
Gigi Hadid by Mariano Vivanco, 2017.
