This book, which celebrates the dawn of two legendary careers, and the start of the highly influential aesthetic of 1990s fashion photography, is a must-have for Kate Moss's fans, for fashion devotees, and for lovers of traditional portraiture and fashion photography. It includes tipped-on images on the book and clamshell box's covers, plus an introductory essay by Sorrenti, which puts the work in its uniquely personal context. A new luxuriously packaged book from Phaidon entitled simply Kate is a collection of 50 portraits of a young Moss taken by her then-boyfriend, photographer Mario Sorrenti back in 1993.

Sumptuously reproduced in tritone and presented in a cloth-covered clamshell box, Kate is a stunning photographic portfolio of one of contemporary culture's most iconic figures. Seen by Calvin Klein, the photographs gave life to the famous Obsession campaign, which launched Moss to international superstardom. 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. He shot for brands including Calvin Klein, Dior, Lancôme, Paco Rabanne, and Benetton, among others.Intimate, never-before-published photographs taken just before Kate Moss's rise to fame, in one elegant volume He has published his work extensively in fashion magazines, including Vogue, i-D, W Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar, and has had exhibitions in London, Paris, Monaco, and New York. This book, which celebrates the dawn of two legendary careers, and the start of the highly influential aesthetic of 1990s fashion photography, is a must-have for Kate Moss’s fans, for fashion devotees, and for lovers of traditional portraiture and fashion photography.Ībout the author: Mario Sorrenti is an Italian photographer and director. It includes tipped-on images on the book and clamshell box’s covers, plus an introductory essay by Sorrenti, which puts the work in its uniquely personal context. Sumptuously reproduced in tritone and presented in a cloth-covered clamshell box, Kate is a stunning photographic portfolio of one of contemporary culture’s most iconic figures.

Seen by Calvin Klein, the photographs gave life to the famous Obsession campaign, which launched Moss to international superstardom. THE story behind how the Kate Moss Calvin Klein Obsession campaign - her first major international moment - came about is legend: Klein himself recognised that photographer Mario Sorrenti, Moss's then-boyfriend, was 'obsessed' with her from the intimate pictures that filled his book and enlisted him to capture her on a holiday that the company arranged. Intimate, never-before-published photographs taken just before Kate Moss’s rise to fame, in one elegant volume

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