| General info : | | Sondra Peterson (born in 1935 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA) is an American model.
She is best known for her work in the 1950s and 1960s appearing in major magazines beside other icons of the age like Veruschka von Lehndorff and Jean Shrimpton.
Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Sondra Peterson was based in New York and Paris during her modeling career , and subsequently lived in France for a few years. She returned to the United States in the early 1990s and currently lives in Westchester County , a suburb of New York City.
Signed by Eileen Ford to the Ford Modeling Agency, she was photographed by leading photographers, including Francis McLaughlin Gill and Irving Penn. She was profiled in Eileen Ford's Book Of Model Beauty.
Sondra Peterson frequently appeared on the covers of prestigious magazines such as Vogue (USA) , Elle , Vogue (France) , Seventeen , Mademoiselle , Harper's Bazaar , Glamour , and Marie Claire in the United States and Europe . Signed by Eileen Ford to the Ford Modeling agency in 1957 , she was photographed by some of the greatest photographers, including Irving Penn , Richard Avedon , Frank Scavullo , Guy Bourdin , and Horst P. Horst . She appeared in television commercials, including one directed by Irving Penn . She was also featured in the book Eileen Ford's Book of Model Beauty (published by Trident Press, New York, 1968).
Today, as a recognized advocate for wildlife and flora, she is committed to the conservation of natural spaces, animal rights , and environmental issues.
Peterson has two children with French media executive Daniel Filipacchi, Chairman Emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias - writer Amanda Filipacchi in 1967 and Craig, in 1972. | |
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| Relations : | | Mother of : Amanda Filipacchi | |
| Relations : | | Married to : Daniel Filipacchi | |
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