# @glorioussport on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSzr1GcCPUS
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63847558-glorioussport-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/1e21fe2f02.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-12-28T12:44:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Glorious Sport (@glorioussport) — https://gondola.cc/glorioussport

## Caption

Grace Jones by Jean-Paul Goude.

After being inspired by Grace’s on-stage performance, legendary French fashion photographer Jean-Paul Goude and musical icon gracejonesofficial decided that a shoot was in order.

From one of their very first meetings, the concept for the
‘Island Life’ cover was born. ‘I photographed her in a variety of positions,’ Goude writes in his memoir, ‘which I combined into a montage that made it possible to show her simultaneously full frontal and in profile. Then, having transferred the montage to photographic paper, I used it as the preliminary sketch for a painting meant to give the photographic illusion that she alone, like a contortionist, could assume the pose’

However, on closer inspection, you can see that from a strictly anatomical point of view, the pose is impossible to achieve.

Thus, the cover is not actually a single image but a series of shots cut together to give the appearance of acrobatic impossibility and absolute GRACE!

Who knew?! For all this time, we thought Grace was just really, really flexible!

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