You feel like you are playing gooseberry just by looking at them. Every delicate picture evokes a tacit sense of playful trust between photographer and subject. ‘I remember sitting next to her and feeling like my heart was going to stop her beauty overwhelmed me.’ Accordingly, his pictures – all dreamy, Penn-ish black and white, all apparently spontaneous and intimate to the point of voyeuristic intrusion – capture the magic intensity of a young man and woman in love. Sorrenti, the book’s introduction tells us, had first met her in 1991. This gorgeously produced book features intimate, never-before-published portraits of a young and undiscovered Kate Moss, taken in the early 1990s by her then-boyfriend, Italian photographer Mario Sorrenti. Photographer and muse became international fashion superstars. Calvin Klein saw the commercial potential of Sorrenti’s pictures of Moss and signed him up for a memorable ‘Obsession’ campaign. Surroundings are idyllic and modest, actions unguarded, sweet and endearing. She’s make-up free, uncoiffed and happily, casually naked or half dressed, in pretty much every frame. Here’s Kate asleep, Kate playing on her Nintendo Gameboy, Kate showering, reading, smoking, and wearing her boyfriend’s Y-fronts. Many of the book’s images have never been seen or published before. There will also be a limited edition of the book complete with a signed photograph of Moss by Sorrenti that will sell for $1,000 (U.S.) and $1,300 (Canada).(Image credit: Photography by Mario Sorrenti) The book will sell for $100 (U.S.) and $125 (Canada). This gorgeously produced book features intimate, never-before-published portraits of a young and undiscovered Kate Moss, taken in the. In addition to Calvin Klein, the 44-year-old British model and businesswoman went on to appear in ad campaigns for companies such as Chanel, Balenciaga, Burberry, Stuart Weitzman, Rag & Bone, Alexander Wang, David Yurman, Givenchy, Robert Cavalli, Dior and Alexander McQueen and has been featured on the cover and in fashion spreads for fashion magazines around the world. With her waifish figure, she personified the grunge aesthetic, which influenced a generation of designers, photographers, editors and models.
Moss shot to fame as an 18-year-old and became part of the heroin-chic fashion trend in the mid-Nineties. In 1993, Calvin Klein was so struck with Sorrenti’s photos that they became the reference for the Obsession perfume campaign, transforming both Moss’ and Sorrenti’s careers. The collection of photos became the inspiration for Moss’s career breakthrough. She became his muse, and he captured intimate shots of her on trips, by the beach or at home in London. The two fell in love and spent the next two years together, traveling and collaborating on photographs. “I remember sitting next to her and feeling like my heart was going to stop her beauty overwhelmed me,” wrote Sorrenti.
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