Fetching is your Dior: Lisa Taylor, Christian Dior, 1976

This iconic image by Chris von Wangenheim embodies the mood of 1970s fashion: lush, decadent and unabashedly seductive. Hired by French fashion house Dior to create an advertisement for the brand’s jewelry, von Wangenheim produced this striking image, which perfectly balances the glamour of haute couture with the growing cultural awareness of women’s sexuality. Featuring the American model Lisa Taylor, this image remains exemplary of the sexually-charged and female-empowering zeitgeist that von Wangenheim captured so eloquently together with his contemporaries, Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin. With his career finally fully recognized last year with the publication of a monograph by Rizzoli, von Wangenheim’s Fetching is your Dior: Lisa Taylor, Christian Dior, was prominently featured as the cover, solidifying its status as the quintessential emblem of a shamelessly beautiful era.