Snowqueen of Texas Deborah Dixon
Snowqueen of Texas Deborah Dixon. Photo by Yale Joel (1960)
Beautiful sophisticated blonde with pale face, Snowqueen of Texas Deborah Dixon, was a very popular model of the cult 1960s. Her beautiful face and perfect figure graced in fashion magazines, such as Harper’s Bazaar. In the photos of Frank Horvat model Deborah Wood Dixon is accompanied by famous European painters, actors, directors, writers – Marcello Mastroianni, Federico Fellini, playwright Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. She was a real inspiration for later cult Scottish director Donald Cammell.
Deborah met Donald Cammell in New York. He moved with Deborah to Paris, where she continued to model and where he began to try his hand at writing scripts. Now she has been a very successful international model, and, in fact Cammell lived for her money for a few years. After living together for ten years, their long relationship (by the standards of fashion and film industry) ended shortly before the start of filming “Performance” (1970). Cammell earned a reputation as cult director just because of his debut film “Performance”, costume designer for which was Deborah Wood Dixon.
Donald Cammell and his beautiful wife – fashion model Deborah Dixon
Donald Seaton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish film director who got a cult reputation thanks to his debut film “Performance”
1974, Paris, for Stern, shoe and Tour Eiffel
Frank Horvat – the famous Italian photographer and photojournalist. Over the years he had visited many countries, to work with many fashion magazines and try a variety of genres in photography. In the early 1950s his photo essays published in leading journals worldwide. In 1955, Frank Horvat moved to Paris and began working in the world of fashion and advertising.
1961, Florence, for Harper’s Bazaar, High Fashion with Deborah Dixon
The series of photographs of Model Deborah Dixon during a shooting in the streets of Rome (1962), in Paris (1966) appear most often on the net. Fashion photographer Frank Horvat was commissioned to photograph the high fashion collections in Rome and Paris, for Harper’s Bazaar USA.
1961, New York, for Harper’s Bazaar, fashion in the street
It is thanks to fashion photographer Frank Horvat we have opportunity to see one of the iconic faces of 1960s Deborah Wood Dixon. No more information about her can be found on the net, except, probably the fact that she was filmed in 1976 “Le voyage de noces” (France/Italy). Texas born model Deborah Wood Dixon inspired Phillips, John Edmund Andrew to create a song “Snowqueen of Texas”.
1961, Rome For Harper’s Bazaar With Model Deborah Dixon and Writer, Antero Piletti
Snowqueen of Texas
Left Paris in a cloud of smoke
They say that she may be beaten
But I know that she’s not broke
She’s living in a cool green farmhouse
If you go to Houston be quiet as a mouse
Met a man in Beirut
Having her name tattooed on his arm
(Ooh, a Deborah forever)
Boots of Spanish leather
I never meant you any harm
I’m on my knees, your majesty
Snowqueen, save a cold kiss of me
I’m on my knees your majesty
Snowqueen of Texas
Left Paris in a cloud of smoke
They say that she may be beaten
But I know that she’s not broke
She’s living in a cool green farmhouse
If you go to Houston be quiet as a mouse
She’s mending a fairy tale
Reading her heart
(Ooh, a Deborah forever)
That’s a good motto
For some jokeman’s card
I’m on my knees, your majesty
Snowqueen, save a cold kiss of me
I’m on my knees your majesty
(I’m on my knees your majesty)
I’m on my knees your majesty
(I’m on my knees your majesty)
I’m on my knees your majesty
Snowqueen save a cold kiss of me
Songwriters
PHILLIPS, JOHN EDMUND ANDREW
Snowqueen of Texas Deborah Dixon
1961, Rome, for Harper’s Bazaar, High Fashion with Deborah Dixon
1961, Rome, for Harper’s Bazaar, High Fashion with Deborah Dixon
1961, Rome, for Harper’s Bazaar, High Fashion with Deborah Dixon
1961, Rome, for Harper’s Bazaar, High Fashion with Deborah Dixon
1961, Rome, for Harper’s Bazaar, High Fashion with Deborah Dixon and Fellini
1961, Rome, for Harper’s Bazaar, High Fashion with Deborah Dixon wearing Italian Haute Couture, with Marcello Mastroianni
1961, Rome, for Harper’s Bazaar, High Fashion with Deborah Dixon wearing Italian Haute Couture, with Marcello Mastroianni
1961, Rome, for Harper’s Bazaar, High Fashion with Deborah Dixon
1967, cover for Harper’s Bazaar
Deborah Dixon 1960s
Deborah Dixon 1964
Deborah Dixon advertizing jewelry
Deborah Dixon as the face of Max Factor
Deborah Dixon by Bert Stern _ Look magazine, 1962
Deborah Dixon c.1964
Deborah Dixon is wearing dress by Pierre Cardin, 1965
Deborah Dixon on the cover of Vogue
Deborah Dixon
Fashion for Harper’s Bazaar. Model Deborah Dixon, wearing Italian Haute Couture, with football fans, 1962, Rome
Harper’s Bazaar Model Deborah Dixon, wearing Italian Haute Couture, with playwriter Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962, Rome
Harper’s Bazaar. Model Deborah Dixon with painter Afro, 1962, Rome
Paris, France 1966. Model Deborah Dixon during a shooting in the streets, 1966 in Paris, France. (Photo by Edouard BOUBAT-Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Sources: www.horvatland.com, www.nickelinthemachine.com
