“I think I'm living in the wrong century. I would have made a great courtesan. Not a mistress - I could never be kept - but a courtesan with my own rules.”

American former fashion model, based in Britain

Marie Helvin is an American former fashion model based in Britain. She became known for her long career in fashion photography and for her close professional collaboration with David Bailey, whom she married from 1975 to 1985. In the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in many fashion features for British Vogue and was photographed by Bailey in a series of nude images published in his 1980 book Trouble and Strife. The two went on to make four more photographic books together, and they continued working on fashion stories for the British, French, and Italian editions of Vogue.