Taken by Henry Talbot while on assignment in Paris for the International Wool Secretariat.
Pardey was working at the time as one of Cardin's house models, along with fellow Australian Judy Connell.

At the time that this photograph was taken, Henry Talbot was in Paris on an assignment for the International Wool Secretariat. He took this photograph of his acquaintance, the Australian model Penny Pardey (later Penny Campbell-Bruce) whom Talbot knew and met up with while in Paris.
Pardey and her friend Judy O'Connell had both been picked up by Pierre Cardin during one of his trips to Australia, and invited to work as house models in Paris.
The mini-shift which Pardey wears is from Cardin's Ready to Wear Cosmocorps collection of 1967. Pardey recalled that this is the dress which Cardin's house models wore around the studio when they weren't modelling other Cardin garments.

Colour transparency, Australian model Penny Pardey wearing Pierre Cardin's mini-shift, taken by Henry Talbot while working on an assignment for the International Wool Secretariat, Paris, France, 1967.

Made: 1967

91/1907-1

1967

65 mm

62 mm