The novel idea of a collection themed on the Flowers of Evil had dawned on Coco Chanel back in 1937. The fashion designer now extended this idea to a collection of fifty-six models interpreting nineteen of Baudelaire’s poems. Lending substance to her project for a retrospective collection, she submitted to the Baudelaire Society photographs and drawings that had appeared in various fashion journals. The collection would be reconstituted in 1985 by the former Harper’s Bazaar photographer, Jerry Plucer-Sarna.