You can see why Frida Kahlo had a thing for Nickolas Muray - the man looks good in a fencing outfit. This look isn’t just for show, though. Muray was an honest-to-goodness Olympian, representing the U.S. in sabre fencing at the 1928 and 1932 Olympics. Catch more white-suited men and women in the Men’s Epee and Women’s Sabre individual matches today.
Nickolas Muray, ca. 1928 / Edward Steichen, photographer. Nickolas Muray papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

You can see why Frida Kahlo had a thing for Nickolas Muray - the man looks good in a fencing outfit. This look isn’t just for show, though. Muray was an honest-to-goodness Olympian, representing the U.S. in sabre fencing at the 1928 and 1932 Olympics. Catch more white-suited men and women in the Men’s Epee and Women’s Sabre individual matches today.

Nickolas Muray, ca. 1928 / Edward Steichen, photographer. Nickolas Muray papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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