In a society where yoga pants rule everyday wear and dating apps are the new normal, the era of Audrey Hepburn's little black dress and high society Cotillion balls seem like they happened centuries ago.
But a window into a world where Marilyn Monroe dominated the headlines and 1950s Hollywood glamour reigned supreme is now being offered in the new book Inge Morath: On Style.
Although she came of age during World War II in Nazi Germany, the late Austrian-born American photographer Morath, who died in 2002, was never attracted to filming death and destruction.
Morath was studying at Berlin University when she refused to join the Hitler Youth at the height of the war.
She was thus drafted to work alongside Ukrainian prisoners of war in an airplane factory, which she was forced to flee on foot and return to Austria when it came under attack by Russian bombers.
Morath worked as a journalist after the war and was one of the first women hired to join the famous Magnum Photos Agency in Paris, according to New York Magazine.
She was one of only two women who worked at the agency in the 1950s and thus was often assigned to photograph the likes of debutantes, models, balls and beauty schools.