 Chéruit is best remembered today as the subject of a number of portraits by Paul César Helleu, with whom she conducted an affair before opening her couture house  and for the appearance of her name in two celebrated works of literature, Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" (1910) and Evelyn Waugh's "Vile Bodies" (1930).Her name is also frequently associated with the fashion photography of Edward Steichen whose favorite model, Marion Morehouse, often wore gowns from the house of Chéruit for "Vogue" magazine in the 1920s.One particular Steichen image has become iconic