things happen

Me encanta esta foto. La boda de Catherine Deneuve y David Bailey en 1965

Bailey was introduced to Catherine Deneuve by Roman Polanski, towards the end of the filming of Repulsion, in 1965. Polanski persuaded her to pose for Playboy, photographed by Bailey.

"Catherine and I," he recalls, "just hit it off."

"One source has said that you were sent to photograph Deneuve for that centrefold, and told her: 'Don't worry: I am a homosexual.' Ninety minutes later she is smoking a cigarette and realising he wasn't telling the truth."

Bailey laughs.

"No."

"Did you seduce Deneuve on that shoot?"

"No. It was at her flat, I think. I can't remember. Yes. It was just... things happen."

David Bailey