It was fun and innocent, a time of discovery for both of us. We lived with her family in Croydon for a bit, and at my mother’s in New York. ‘We modelled together, travelled together. So began a relationship that lasted two years, during which the pair were inseparable.
‘We hung out all night,’ recalls Sorrenti, ‘until we fell asleep on the grass in Hyde Park.’ This was Sorrentis personal ode to his former girlfriend and muse Kate Moss. Kate Moss photographed by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue Italia, February 1999. The Face February 2000 Angela Lindvall photographed by Mario Sorrenti. He didn’t think he’d ever see Moss again, but weeks later they bumped into each other at a party. The Face February 2000 Angela Lindvall photographed by Mario Sorrenti. After studying painting and sculpture at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he’d fallen in love with photography, and, in between castings, spent his days taking pictures. Sorrenti was 19 at the time, an aspiring artist trying to making ends meet by modelling. ‘She was chatty and funny and I remember sitting next to her, feeling like my heart had stopped.’
It was a shoot for Wella hair mousse, in London, 1991.
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 sounds corny, but she swept me away,’ says the American photographer Mario Sorrenti of his first encounter with Kate Moss. 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. 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. 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. Intimate, never-before-published photographs taken just before Kate Moss's rise to fame, in one elegant volume
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