Joe Dallesandro is the subject of Saint Laurent’s latest photographic tribute by Hedi Slimane.

Dallesandro, an icon of 70s NY youth culture, sexual revolution and an underground film star was a key figure in Andy Warhol’s Factory. He’s also the anonymous crotch immortalised on the cover of The Rolling Stones’ 1971 LP Sticky Fingers, a sleeve conceived by Warhol and shot by Billy Name in killer union of art and rock ‘n’ roll. Warhol also created an infamous panelled portrait of Mr Yves Saint Laurent in that decade, based off a series of Polaroids. Whilst Joe got another place in rock history, namechecked by Lou Reed in Walk on the Wild Side.

Though this picture was taken in March 2014, Slimane photographed Dallesandro for the first time in February 2009, meeting him through American director and screenwriter Gus Van Sant.