Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), known professionally as Dovima, was an American supermodel during the 1950s.

[1] 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.

Throughout her career she worked closely with Richard Avedon, whose photograph of her in a floor-length black evening gown with circus elephants—Dovima with the Elephants[2]—taken at the Cirque d'hiver, Paris, in August 1955, became an icon and sold for $1,151,976 in 2010.

[3] The gown was the first evening dress designed for Christian Dior by his new assistant, Yves Saint-Laurent.

[citation needed] Dovima gave birth to a daughter named Allison on July 14, 1958, in Manhattan.