New York Raises a Glass to Richard Avedon, Bound in Hardcover

Dior and Harper's Bazaar co-hosted a cocktail evening in New York to mark a new book devoted to the photographer Richard Avedon. The volume is the kind made for a low table rather than a shelf, and it revisits the images of his that mattered most once they reached the page. Guests gathered to celebrate the publication and the man whose work fills it. The pairing of a French couture house and an American fashion magazine makes sense in this city, where a camera and a well-cut dress have long shared the same room. For an archive like ours, the appeal is simple. Avedon's pictures are the reason many of the looks we catalog are remembered at all, and this book keeps them in circulation.

With reporting from Harper's Bazaar.