The Pirelli calendar is usually reserved for the rich and famous, featuring famous models in pretty much nothing.
For the past fifty years, the Italian tiremaker has used the calendar as an advertisement to showcase their products to a select group of “V.I.P.’s, musicians, politicians and royalty,” a spokesman told the New York Times.
2016, however, is seeing a completely different kind of Pirelli calendar.
Photographer Annie Leibovitz decided that instead of models, she’d like to shoot accomplished women like Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Tavi Gevensen, Fran Lebowitz, Amy Schumer and more.
The idea was to move away from the pin-up theme the Italian company had gone with for the past fifty or so years, and instead introduce a new side of female sexuality.
“I didn’t feel like I was selling out by doing this as much as helping Annie support a new idea about female style and beauty,” Iranian artist Shirin Neshat told the Times.
Schumer was one of the only ones who posed without her clothes on, the joke being that she didn’t get the message about “In with the accomplishments and out with the nudity.”
Ah well. Good on ya, Amy.
“Beautiful, gross, strong, thin, fat, pretty, ugly, sexy, disgusting, flawless, woman,” Schumer wrote on Instagram. “Thank you Annie Leibovitz!”