The (Sur)Real Miss World
May, 1980
The (Sur)Real Miss WorldArt imitates life, it has been said, but (in case you can't figure out what's going on here) sometimes life imitates art. The life in this instance is that of the just-retired Miss World, Silvana Suarez, and the art she's imitating is that of the Belgian surrealist René Magritte (1898--1967). The inspiration to incorporate a real woman into Magritte-style photographs came from Belgian fashion photographer Pierre Eggermont, who met the 20-year-old Argentine beauty queen wh...