She was the model in Antonioni's Blow Up (1966). For nearly as brief a time as her performance in that film, she was Vogue. Today is her birthday.
A woman I worked with way back when, discouraged my admiration for Verushka, proclaiming her condemnation of the model, she scolded me: "She is completely amoral! Bear! How can you possibly like someone like that?"
And yet, Verushka's detractor went on to earn a similar reputation herself.
"Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned."
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