[1][2][3] Edwige founded (with Claude Arto) the post-punk synth pop musical group Mathématiques modernes with which she sang and released four albums.

[6][1][7] Edwige went to live with Maud Molyneux and Paquita Paquin, on the rue Vavin in Montparnasse, where she gradually turned into a punk rocker, shaving her hair and dyeing it platinum blond when it grew back.

[12] In 1979, Edwige founded (with Claude Arto) the post-punk synth pop musical group Mathématiques modernes with which she sang and released four albums.

[15] She returned regularly to New York over the following years, living on Ludlow Street in the Lower East Side, where she developed a heroin habit.

"The strong temperament of our model and her boyish appearance went well with the reputation for rigor and austerity of this intellectual and mystical figure that was Gertrude the Great" explains the photographers.

[7] Long before, she was also the subject of photographs by Helmut Newton[17] for a rarely published photo,[7] Maripol a few years later, and Jean-Baptiste Mondino.