This image by Ludmilla Kavalla, an Austrian illustrator and designer, known as Mila, is a bit mysterious. It comes from the Letterform Archive, a wonderful resource for vintage type and imagery. Not much seems to be known about her work. She worked in the fashion and travel industries. I tried to find out more about her, and about her client, Steiner Seide as this image of a chic black woman backgrounded by the Eiffel Tower is certainly an anomaly for its time, the 1950s. Mila was well known enough to have done a maquette for the Venice Biennale of 1948, and Letterform has many other images of her work available. I am setting my Austrian sleuths on the quest for more data. Please help if you know more.