"Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), professionally known as Dovima, was an American model during the 1950s.
Born in Queens, New York, to a Polish-American policeman and an Irish-born mother, she was the first model to use a single name. The name Dovima is composed of the first two letters of her three given names.
Dovima was discovered on a sidewalk in New York by an editor at Vogue, and had a photo shoot with Irving Penn the following day. She worked closely...
