YOUR FIRST LOOK AT THE 2016 PIRELLI CALENDAR

- September 24, 2015

Next year's lineup includes influential women such as Serena Williams, Amy Schumer and Yoko Ono.

The Pirelli calendar has become famous for its provocative photos of supermodels like Cindy Crawford, Adriana Lima, Gisele Bundchen, Kate Moss and Isabeli

Fontana in exotic locations.

Last year's calendar featured Carolyn Murphy, Gigi Hadid, Joan Smalls and Candice Huffine wearing nothing but latex, lensed by Steven Meisel.

Now, photographer Annie Liebovitz will usher in a new era for the 2016 calendar.

Next year's lineup includes only one model, Pirelli veteran Natalia Vodianova, alongside an unexpected cast of influential women from all different walks of life—Amy Schumer, Serena Williams, Tavi Gevinson and Patti Smith, to name a few.

"I started to think about the roles that women play, women who have achieved something," said Liebovitz. "I wanted to make a classic set of portraits. I thought that the women should look strong but natural and I decided to keep it very simple exercise of shooting in the studio. This calendar is completely different.

It is a departure. The idea was not to have any pretense in these pictures and be very straightforward," the photographer said of the calendar's new direction. Below, watch the behind-the-scenes video, plus see photos from the entire 2016 lineup.

Agnes Gund