Rock Beauty of the Week : Christa Päfgen - NICO

Speaking of the Velvet Underground . . . . . . . . . 

Before the smack kicked in . . . . . 

"Recognise this dazzling blonde? It’s Nico (yes, THAT Nico!) aka Christa Päffgen in her pre-Warhol / Velvet Underground international supermodel days, photographed by Jerry Schatzberg in 1961. Photographer and filmmaker Schatzberg knew a thing or two about complicated women with great cheekbones: in the 1960s he was engaged to Faye Dunaway (she ditched him for Marcello Mastroianni!) and later directed Dunaway in the intriguingly weird 1970 psychodrama Puzzle of a Downfall Child.” Only perhaps here can you see why Alain Delon would have had a child (Ari) with her behind the back of his then fiancée the equally breathtaking Romy Schneider