Beautiful and provocative photographs of five fashion icons

“This session was made at the Wallace Collection. I didn’t know what I was expecting with Miss Westwood.  Everything was ready when she appeared in that dress. The director of the museum was there to welcome her. And when her fiancé arrived completely nude, the director didn’t say a word, as if everything was normal, typically English. I was really happy to make this picture in London, because, let me tell you, I don’t think we could have done that in the Musée d’Orsay.”

"I don’t know how many houses he had at this time, I remember that a company of movers was working for him full time, moving stuff all over Europe from one house to another. He was very easy to work with, so clever, a really fascinating man.” 

“I didn’t know her. But I supposed that she was fed up with people talking to her about The Beatles. So I didn’t tell her that I worked with the group and her father from 1963 until 1968. I found that moment rather funny, she looked at me as a fashion photographer, without knowing that I was known as a rock photographer and that I knew them long ago before she was born.”

“I knew him for a long time, in the 1960s I used to come with Françoise Hardy to meet him for fitting dresses. This session is the last one he did in his studio. He was very tired at this time, and I thought it was a beautiful way of showing him saying ‘goodbye’. Later, one night as I was in a club, I met him and he asked me if I could send him a print of this picture. Obviously I did this the next day. Three weeks later he died.”