Alice Ormsby Gore
In Alice's case we are not sure when we knew about her for the first time. Probably we read her name in Pattie Boyd's book. She dated and later was the fiancée of Eric Clapton after he and Charlotte Martin broke up, and before he and Paula Boyd (Pattie's younger sister) dated.
[The typical Alice and Eric picture from 1969]
Alice was just a teenager when she got engaged to marry to Eric Clapton, and was the daughter of a Lord who had been the UK's ambassador in the US at the time John Kennedy was the president.
[Alice modelling for Vogue UK in 1969]
She lived in this big manor in the English countryside bordering the Welsh border, the family house where all her ancestors lived. Sadly her mother died on a car crash in 1967 when Alice was just 15. It was the psychedelic/hippy 1960s and the young naif Alice fell in love with the wrong man...
[Alice and Eric in 1969. He was an alcoholic and addict, much older than her, and dragged teenage Alice to the darkness...]
But Alice, luckily, was more than that. She was a very beautiful and successful model, posing for Vogue magazine in the late 1960s and early 1970s very often, she also acted and sang in the Jewish version of the musical "Hair", and also helped the poor and addicts along with her sisters holding music festivals and working with local charities.
[Alice in 1970 by Clive Arrowsmith]
What we love about Alice is her natural beauty, very different from everybody else. Her sense of style was also very 1960s, very hippy. She believed in love and peace, and although she struggled with her addicition, we want to think she was happy in her life...
[Beautiful Alice, with Eric, in 1970. After he dragged her into the darkness he got clean... and then dragged Paula Boyd into the same abyss]
As with many of the others muses,there were always the same photos of her on the net, and while she was not as famous or popular as other models from the 1960s like Twiggy, Pattie Boyd, Jean Shrimpton or Marsha Hunt, we thought she deserved recognition on her own, not only linked to her family or friends. And while maybe there is not enough content to have a website just for herself, we thought it would be lovely to include her here, with all the other muses we love.
[Another classical Alice, from January 1970 British Vogue]
She was gone far too soon and we hope she found peace in the end. We also hope that more pictures and information about her surface on the net, and we will be here sharing it with all of you!
Today, for what would have been her birthday, we wanted to share with all of you, dear followers, how we knew about Alice and what made us love her.
Here we share:
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