Vanities

Legions of Helmut

April 1985 Caroline Graham
Vanities
Legions of Helmut
April 1985 Caroline Graham

Legions of Helmut

"I was amused by the girl with the whips," said Helmut Newton, And, in fact, half the women at his Los Angeles exhibition were making an exhibition of themselves in the sort of fetishistic fashions featured in his photographs. Two thousand people crowded the G. Ray Hawkins Gallery and thronged Melrose Avenue, among them Harry Dean Stanton, Sidney Sheldon, Hart Bochner, Peter Fonda, and Arianna Stassinopoulos, who, eschewing chains and leather, had opted for black-and-white Fortuny pleats.

Caroline Graham