Roger Schall (1904–1995), a French photographer active from the late 1920s until the 1970s, produced a series of images in the early 1930s for Diana Slip, a Parisian lingerie and fetishwear house founded by Léon Vidal.
Diana Slip, operating principally in the interwar period, specialised in suggestive and specialised undergarments, often incorporating elements of erotic restraint and exposure that placed it among the more audacious fashion enterprises of its time. The house commissioned several notable photographers of the era, including Brassaï and Roger Schall, to document its creations.
Schall’s contributions stand out for their measured elegance: fluid compositions, natural lighting (frequently outdoors or in softly lit interiors), and an emphasis on the line and texture of fabric against skin rather than overt theatricality. The photographs combine the documentary character of commercial work with a quiet, almost painterly attention to form and atmosphere.
This section gathers known surviving examples of Schall’s Diana Slip images from the archive. They offer a glimpse into a particular moment in Parisian erotic and fashion photography of the 1930s, before the disruptions of the Second World War brought an end to the label.
