Originally working as a fashion model in the 1960s in Paris, Sarah Moon transitioned to behind the camera in the 1970s and quickly rose to prominence as a respected photographer for her unique and dream like vision of fashion. Romantic and somewhat fantastical, with a strong eye for graphic compositions first in black and white and then colour, Moon was responsible for many defining looks in advertising for Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garcons and Cacharel in the 1970s and 1980s. Often sensuous and mysterious, her signature ethereal style was in strong contrast to those of her male contemporaries such as Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin, and Peter Lindbergh.

Whilst Moon made history as the first woman to shoot the Pirelli calendar in 1972, her focus since the mid-1980s has been more on her film and fine art photography. Her painterly aesthetic and stylistic palette of jewel tones that epitomised her fashion photography is perfectly expressed in this work which featured in a New York Times editorial from 1998.