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. 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. Pick up your copy here.Intimate, never-before-published photographs taken just before Kate Moss’s rise to fame, in one elegant volume He launched an icon-and now he’s showing us how.
It was his vision that propelled her to timeless superstardom. His infatuation with her was (and is) violently contagious. In Kate, we discover Moss’s irresistible innocence, once exclusive to Sorrenti’s journals and now reverently shared. The book brims with nostalgia and intimacy, or as Calvin Klein saw it, “Obsession,” as this very collection of images inspired his famous 1993 campaign for that fragrance, a breakthrough moment for both Moss and Sorrenti. “We were both surprised by how beautiful some of the images were,” Sorrenti recalls.
The project began when Mary Frey, Sorrenti’s wife, discovered the early negatives while going through his archives. Sorrenti describes the curating process as “very simple but long,” as he and Freedman had to sort through two years of photographs before launching into a yearlong editing phase. Last month, Sorrenti and W Magazine creative director Dennis Freedman released Kate, a collection of fifty previously unpublished photos-each an exquisite slice of Moss’s pre-fame glow-bound by a gray hardcover. At twenty years old, he and Moss sank deep into earnest, adolescent love, and while their relationship eventually expired, his adoration for her lives on in photographic memory. One of those lucky photographers was Mario Sorrenti. But before she became the ubiquitous and inimitable Kate, her piercing gaze met only a small circle of lenses. Her unmatched versatility quickly launched her to the top of the fashion industry and then into the wider realm of pop culture, where she came to represent heroin chic and the grunge era and eventually an entire decade. MARIO SORRENTI SHOWS A NEW SIDE OF KATE MOSSĮvery year since the Nineties icon Kate Moss was first discovered at JFK Airport in 1988, it has become increasingly difficult to imagine that any inch of her image remains foreign to the camera, to the public eye, to the consumer.
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