Over the course of his legendary photographic career, Peter Lindbergh worked with some of the most famous models and actresses in the world – with sensitive imagery that helped to catapult the original Supers to megastardom thanks to his January 1990 cover for British Vogue.

“Vogue’s editor Liz Tilberis had asked Peter to photograph the new woman of the 1990s,” Cindy Crawford recalled of the shoot in Vogue. “Peter’s reply was that he couldn’t do it with just one woman. The idea of beauty had broadened; it could not be summed up with either a blonde, blue-eyed girl or a sexy brunette, he told her.”

Through the years that followed, it was that commitment to diverse beauty – without excessive polish and retouching – that defined Lindbergh’s work, all of the way through to his final British Vogue cover for the September 2019 issue, guest-edited by the Duchess Of Sussex. The fashion world mourned his loss when he passed away on 3 September 2019; here, look back at 16 of his most exquisite photographs for British Vogue through the decades.