It was on a beach in Malibu in 1988 when Peter Lindbergh  the photos of the White Shirts series, which are now legendary. The simple but groundbreaking shots made us Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Rachel Williams, Karen Alexander, Tatjana Patitz and Estelle Lefébure known. It was the The beginning of an era in which beauty was redefined and the German photographer fundamentally change the landscape of fashion photography This large-format illustrated book follows Lindbergh's humanistic approach and his preference for cinematic stagings, which produced photos as seductive as they were introspective, and brings together more than 300 pictures from his forty-year career .

In 1980, Rei Kawakubo asked Lindbergh to photograph a Commes des Garçons campaign, one of his early forays into the world of advertising, with Kawakubo giving him complete freedom. The following years led Lindbergh to the Fashion industry greats such as Azzedine Alaïa, Giorgio Armani, Alber Elbaz, John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld, Thierry Mugler, Yves Saint Laurent, Jil Sander and Yohji Yamamoto – Collaborations that were always based on great mutual respect, which is palpable in the portraits.

Lindbergh did important pioneering work by refusing to conform to the beauty standards of the fashion industry and In addition to the appearance of women, he emphasized their minds and personalities . He played a key role in the rise of models such as Kate Moss , Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Kristen McMenamy and Mariacarla Boscono . Lindbergh's reach extended to Hollywood and beyond: In his photographs we encounter Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Rampling, Richard Gere, Madonna, Brad Pitt, Catherine Deneuve and Jeanne Moreau . From his famous photo of the “supermodels”, the Anna Wintour in 1990 for the cover of her first Vogue issue to the legendary shot of Tina Turner on the Eiffel Tower – it is never the clothing, the celebrity or the glamour that takes center stage in a Lindbergh photograph. Rather, each of his shots conveys Humanity and a sense of emotional clarity – a quiet and soulful melancholy that bears his unique and unmistakable signature.