Madame Vincent (Michelle) Auriol, Vogue

The wife of the President of the French Republic wearing a grey-blue faille dress, designed by Christian Dior, posed in the Salon Doreée in the presidential palace, the Elysée. The room has a nineteenth-century chandelier, murals of flowers and cherubs framed in gold ormolu, and a seventeenth-century Savonnerie rug.