Cover Girl

Helmut Newton was a Fashion Photographer for Australian, British and French Vogue. He was famous for his nude or semi nude photographs of women, often stylized erotic images with a dark fetishistic subtext. His use of the nude as a fashion photograph concept, the nude in a setting that created the mood, the style and the image for fashion, rather then the clothing, this is what most appealed to me about this photographer's work. The notion of the 'Cover Girl' as a powerful, in control, femme fatal was the inspiration for these designs, the playful use of men’s design details mixed with the allure of the dominatrix.