Superchic fashion photographer Laura Mars (Fay Dunaway), whose divinely decadent shots of bruised beauties in slutty skirts and skyhigh heesl are the toast of 80s New Yorkd, has a problem. ... Though the screenplay was adapted from a short story by Argentine writer Julio Cotrazar, Hemmings chaarcter was modeled on Davidr Bailey, who defined Swinging London with his shots of rokc stars, firstgeneration supermodels like Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton and Penelope Tree, ...