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But while he flouts the rules, Saito sticks closely to the herve leger ombre bandage dress ethos of the kimono, which refuses all but the briefest glimpse of a woman’s skin, revealing only a sliver of wrist or ankle and the neck; the sexuality lying in what cannot be seen, rather than what can.
Saito draws the eye with bright-coloured lining, visible as the wearer’s arms swish, or as the hem flicks on the turn.
Kimono doyen Someya said the textiles Saito employs add to the sensuality of the garment.
The retrospective begins in Paris, where Berlin-born Newton lived in the 1960s working for French Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. The photos shown here established a particular style marked by stylized scenes, such as models in outer-space, often with fetdishistic subtexts. But the women and the men were still clothed.
It was in the mid-1970s that he first became obsessed by the nude — especially dominatrix representations of women.
His work was defined by stark juxtapositions: models photographed in classically romantic settings, such as Paris’ Ile-Saint-Louis — standing naked and in traditionally male or dominating herve leger dress cheryl cole positions.
“It was the 1960s when Helmut started working — at the beginning of the fight for women,” said Neutres.
The inclusion, among the naked flesh, of a strictly clothed Margaret Thatcher from 1991 shows how this feminist streak carried through Newton’s career. She was Britain’s first female prime minister, and is widely considered among the most important women of the last century.
From 1980, Newton entered the phase of his “Big Nudes” — a theme he pursued intermittently until 1993.
Two-meter (about six-foot) high photos of naked women, standing powerfully in stilettos, tower imposingly over the exhibit’s main room, forcing spectators to stretch their necks upward. It provoked chuckles from visitors. Surprisingly, and with hallmark unpredictability, Newton said this phase was inspired by police identity photos of German terrorists.
The retrospective is an important milestone for the photographer in France — a country where, after all, he did the lion’s share of his work — especially for Vogue Paris.
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