Helmut newton

Some things age gracefully. Others refuse to behave. Fifty years on, Helmut Newton’s first publication, a book that elevated his name far beyond the pages of fashion magazines, returns in a landmark, international re-edition. First published under the titles White Women and Femmes secrètes in 1976, it brought together fashion, portraiture, and the erotic in a visual language that was cool, controlled, and unapologetically provocative.

Here are the women: glamorous, commanding, seductive, and in control. Here are the clothes, cars, hotels, pools, bedrooms, and immaculate interiors. Here are the cultural icons of the time, from Paloma Picasso, Veruschka and Elsa Peretti to Karl Lagerfeld, David Hockney, and Charlotte Rampling. And here’s Newton, orchestrating it all with his famously sharp eye and subversive sense of humor.

This 50th-anniversary edition preserves the source selection and sequence of photographs, alongside Newton’s own reflection