Slim Aarons traveled the world and captured the wealthy, privileged, and talented in his photographs.
His photos are a window to a bygone era of luxury, power, and beauty. Scroll to shop and gift from his iconic lens.
1957—Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California.
1977—Sunbathers on the beach at
St. Tropez, France.
Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a swimming pool in Palm Beach, Florida, 1959.
Circa 1955—Photographer Slim Aarons slouches in a chair with the Acropolis and its surroundings as a backdrop.
June 1970—A group of colorfully dressed holidaymakers on a yacht, Bermuda.
1955—Sultry sex symbol, film star Ursula Andress takes a siesta in a hammock on a visit to Rome.
Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1961.
April 1967—General view looking down on sunbathers on the deck of a yacht, off the coast of the Bahamas. The image has been taken from a vantage point on the mast of the yacht.
Circa 1984—Roberta Droulers sitting with her daughters, Nathalie and Virginie, in the lobby of the Villa D’Este on Lake Como, Italy.
January 1970—Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur and other guests at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California.
1980—Hang gliding in Kitzbuhel, Austria.
A group of young men playing handball at a court in the 95th Street playground, Central Park, New York City, 1947.
The Hôtel du Cap Eden-Roc,
Antibes, France.
Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda, 1958. She is wearing a striped Irish linen overblouse by Donald Davies of Dublin.
1961—American publisher Hugh Hefner, founder of ‘Playboy’ magazine, surrounded by erotica at the Playboy Club in Chicago.
December 1961—Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown which belonged to the wife of Otto, the first king of modern Greece.
1978—Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank ‘Brandy’ Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco.
Kasimir Korybut and Michelle Vaughan begin a raft ride up the White River in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, 1971.
Working at his typewriter surrounded by “bunny girls” publisher Hugh M. Hefner at the Playboy Key Club in Chicago.
February 1975—Bathers at La Concha Beach Club, Acapulco, Mexico.
A guest takes a break from the sun at the Marbella Club, Marbella, Spain, 1976.
Marietine Birnie after a day snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959.
Guests at a party at the home of Sebastiano Bergese in Marbella, Spain, 1967.
Marietine Birnie ready for a day snorkeling at the Blue Lagoon, Kemmuna (Comina), Malta, July 1959.
Greek actress Melina Mercouri (1925–1994) sitting at a street cafe in Athens.
January 1970—Ladies by the pool at the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, California.
A group of young boys sailing model boats at Harlem Meer, Central Park, New York City, New York, 1948.
Guests relax by the swimming pool at John Young’s villa ‘Plantana,’ Ocho Rios, Jamaica, March 1971.
A couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955.
Mrs. Woolworth Donahue with car and bicycles on her motor yacht, Hartline.
1968—Preparing to go paragliding in Acapulco, a young blonde woman holds on firmly to her parachute harness.
April 1981—Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America’s foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren, and son-in-law, Palm Beach.
An underwater view of the pool at the Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
1985—A swimming pool and lounge deck over the sea at Angra Dos Reis, Brazil.
A woman sits at the edge of a swimming pool in Kenya, December 1958.
September 1978—Spectators dine in the open air as the horses go by at Baden Baden racecourse, Germany.
August 1971—The beach at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera.
August 1981—Guests on board Italian Count Hannibal Scotti’s yacht, Scotland Cay, Monte Carlo Harbour, Monaco.
Sarah Marson Williams enjoys a cocktail on the beach at the Hilton Hotel, Needhams Point, Barbados, April 1976.
1967—Film producer Kevin McClory takes his wife Bobo Sigrist and their family for a drive in an Amphicar across the harbor at Nassau.
A group of people snorkeling off a small boat in Malta, 1959.
March 1968—Two women stand in the foreground of a snowy landscape with a helicopter on the slopes of Snowmass Village, in Pitkin County, Colorado.
August 1971—Two young women, one wearing a kaftan, stepping onto a yacht on the waterfront at Saint-Tropez, France.
1972—Charley Weaver at the Las Brisas resort in Acapulco, Mexico.
August 1973—A motor boat arrives at a jetty in Porto Ercole, Italy.
Lilian Hanson sunbathing by a pool at the Bürgenstock Resort in Canton Nidwalden, Switzerland, 1955.
1957—Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas.
A high-angle view of the ketch ‘Traveler II’ and people swimming off Stocking Island, Bahamas, 1964.
A helicopter and two motor boats adorn the deck of a luxury yacht where Roy J. Craven and Prince Pouilnac are chatting in Monte Carlo Harbor.
1964—Skiers at Verbier.
March 1976—Manuela Bormanero and a friend holiday in the Italian ski resort Cortina d’Ampezzo.
January 1961—Ingrid Morath sunbathes by a swimming pool next to the sea in Acapulco. Ingrid was born in Rio de Janeiro and lives in Mexico City.
1967—Tanned bodies on the deck of Dino Pecci Blunt’s yacht in Marabella.
April 1968—Jim Kimberly and his wife, with his white sports car and white boats moored on Lake Worth. A Palm Beach socialite, he acts as Honorary Consul of Jordan.
1959—Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs. George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford’s home in Palm Beach, Florida.
April 1983—Windsurfing off Lyford Cay in the Bahamas.
1976—Ava Marshall relaxes with a book amongst the bougainvillea in Barbados.
Arthur Truman Capote (1924 to 1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brooklyn Heights, New York.
Circa 1955—American socialite C. Z. Guest with a poodle and a Great Dane at her ocean-front estate, Villa Artemis, in Palm Beach, Florida.
1961—American actor Hugh O’Brian (left) hoists the sail on a dinghy, in Antigua, West Indies.
March 1982—Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
April 1980—Interior designer David Nightingale Hicks (1929 – 1998) on Windermere Island in the Bahamas.
1980—Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri.
1961—Dimitris Kritsas, a fashionable young couturier, poses among the gleaming Doric columns of the temple to Poseidon at Sounion.
American swimmer and actress Esther Williams (1921 – 2013) lounging on a trampoline, circa 1956.
April 1968—Mr. and Mrs. Donald Leas with their Rolls Royce and two pet dogs outside The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida.
Gloria Schiff, the twin sister of Consuelo Crespi, with her pet dog and pet birds at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas.
August 1969—Marta Marzotta playing a James Brown album on a stereo system in Porto Ercole, Tuscany.
April 1968—Elizabeth Matthews, descendant of H. M. Flagler co-founder of Palm Beach, sits in her great-grandfather’s favorite chair in front of the family mansion now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach.
August 1976—Guests by the pool at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, Antibes, France.
September, 1978—A woman carrying her dog in a Gucci bag, Venice.
A woman surrounded by red hibiscus flowers in a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico, circa 1960.
Surfers outside a beach hut in Laguna Beach, California, January 1970.
Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel in New York, 1964.
November 1980—Marie-Louise Scio poses in a leotard at the Tettuccio Terme in Montecatini, Italy.
Film star Joan Collins in a pink and white bedroom with an accessory pink poodle, circa 1955.
1964—American socialite Wendy Vanderbilt (right) and another woman wearing Lilly Pulitzer sun dresses in Palm Beach, Florida.
July 1961—Young women by the Canellopoulos penthouse pool, Athens.
August 1975—Bathers round a pool in Sotogrande, Spain.
1958—Actress Dee Hartford, wife of film producer Howard Hawks, sips a Pussyfoot, a mixture of Jamaican fruit juices in Jamaica.
1985—Princess Bianca Hanau-Schaumburg at her Gstaad chalet.
Circa 1965—Freddie and Howard Cushing surfing with friends at Bailey’s Beach (the Spouting Rock Beach Association) in Newport. Their father introduced the sport to the club in the 1930s.
March 1962—A skier at the Stowe Mountain Resort, Vermont, USA.
September 1965—Surfers off Rhode Island.
May 1970—Alvin and Lilly Fuller outside their new home in Palm Beach, Florida, pose with their fashionable European sports car, the Mercedes 190SL.
Actress Tania Mallet relaxes on a red-curtained four poster in Eleuthera, in the Bahamas. She is known for her role as the unfortunate Tilly Masterson in the Bond film Goldfinger.
July 1964—Tiger Morse in a feathered mask sits in the ‘À la Carte’ shop, New York.
1958—Swimsuited revellers enjoy a glass of wine outside the Carlton Hotel, Cannes.
1964—Holiday-makers take in the sun on a mountain top in Verbier.