This photograph was taken by Mark Shaw for LIFE Magazine in 1960. It features elegant couture, art and decadent modernist Parisian interiors. Nico is posing with a pair of dachshunds in the apartment of legendary Parisian interior designer Henry Samuel. Nico was a young model before she became famous. She went on to be the lead chanteuse of the experimental band The Velvet Underground.
Nico from the Velvet Underground in the apartment of Henri Samuel Paris 1960 by Mark Shaw
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