Sixties fashion model Margot McKendry lists Darling Point apartment: Title Tattle
The 1950 and 1960s fashion model Margot McKendry and her American plastic-surgeon husband, Michael Hogan, who typically have split their time between Santa Barbara, California and New York's Upper East Side, have listed their occasional Sydney base.
It’s a three-bedroom Darling Point apartment listed for May 8 auction through Brad Caldwell-Eyles of 1st City Hasesmer+Caldwell Eyles with $3 million-plus hopes. The whole-floor 225-square-metre unit is on the fourth floor of Torrington, the tightly held 1986 Mirvac-built Darling Point Road block of nine apartments, where the last recorded sale was in 2004.
It has north-westerly views across Elizabeth Bay towards the city and Harbour Bridge. It cost $900,000 when bought in 1986.
During the 1950s and 1960s, McKendry modelled and even did a few film tests when she worked overseas, with works including a session with Cary Grant photographed by Bob Willoughby (pictured above). Her portrait in a Tommy Harrison hat taken by Helmut Newton on a Flinders Lane, Melbourne rooftop in 1954 (pictured below) is held at the Powerhouse Museum.
In 1960, after being discovered internationally following an Australian Women’s Weekly cover, McKendry was earning £27 an hour while modelling in New York.
Hogan, who often visited Tasmania to fish, periodically hit the headlines himself, given his clients included Jackie Onassis and Kerry Packer.
