Evening Dress, Worn by Elizabeth Parke Firestone in a Cecil Beaton Photograph, 1949

Elizabeth Parke Firestone, wife of tire magnate Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., cultivated a refined sense of fashion through years of interest in clothing design and collaboration with world-renowned couturiers. In 1949, she posed for celebrated Vogue fashion photographer Cecil Beaton. Firestone, who favored blue, wore this pale gown designed by Sophie Gimbel for Salon Moderne of Saks Fifth Avenue.