Lot Essay
Lanvin's full leather bodysuit redefined the leather jacket for motorcyclists into a full body suit for Marianne Faithfull in this sixties cult classic. Faithfull as Rebecca wears the skin-tight suit throughout the film, as we follow her on a motorcycle ride across Germany to see her lover. The American title of the film, Naked Under Leather, suggests that Rebecca wears nothing underneath her leather bodysuit, and indeed we see Faithfull zip the suit over her naked body in the opening scene. Rated X at the time, the film features a number of erotic scenes, one of which sees Rebecca's lover slowly unzip the bodysuit with his teeth. A detail of the provocatively unzipped suit acted as a teaser on both the US and British film posters.