Bailey's Self-Love Debate

David Bailey has no problem with the rising amount of photography created using camera phones. He's also recently become familiar with the idea of selfies.

"It makes no difference," he told The Evening Standard. "In the past, every journalist had a tape-recorder. It didn't make them Tolstoy. I didn't even know what a selfie was until six months ago. I thought it meant masturbation. Although of course it is masturbation of a sort."

David Bailey: Selfies

He is the second fashion legend in a week to compare selfies to self-pleasure. Karl Lagerfeld recently spoke of his contempt for them; describing them as "electronic masturbation".

"They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small," he told the Guardian.