INYIM Media Fashion Look Book: With Brand Calvin Luo Of Helmut Newton To Conceptualize F/W 2022 Collection!

“Le Smoking“, one of the photographer’s most emblematic image, was taken in a dusty Parisian alleyway (rue Aubriot) in pure elegant simplicity that remains the epitome of chic to this day. It is documented that Newton asked Vikebe Knudsen (the model) to incarnate a familiar figure in 19th-century French art: the dandy, who “has no profession other than elegance”, according to Baudelaire. Le Smoking would not only mark a shift in fashion, but in power. In the words of Pierre Bergé “It is a well-known fact that Chanel gave women their freedom; years later Saint Laurent brought them power.”