You feel like you are playing gooseberry just by looking at them. Vulnerable and impossible to look away from, the photos, which were edited by Sorrenti with Dennis Freedman, show a 17-year-old, softer side of the waif-thin star the fashion world has been enumerated with for decades. Every delicate picture evokes a tacit sense of playful trust between photographer and subject. Kate features a rare 50-image series of never-before-published photographs taken just before Moss rise to fame. ‘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.

Photographer and muse became international fashion superstars. Harpers Bazaar, Vogue, and even the image.

Since being discovered at New York’s JFK. Kate (With Shipping Box, Unopened), a collection of works by Italian-American photographer Mario Sorrenti. Calvin Klein saw the commercial potential of Sorrenti’s pictures of Moss and signed him up for a memorable ‘Obsession’ campaign. Kate Moss, Mario Sorrenti, and Raf Simons recall one of beauty’s most iconic campaignsand celebrate the launch of Calvin Klein’s latest scent. Surroundings are idyllic and modest, actions unguarded, sweet and endearing. Moss also approves of her younger image being. She’s make-up free, uncoiffed and happily, casually naked or half dressed, in pretty much every frame. If one thing summed up Calvin Klein for us visually, it was Mario Sorrentis Obsession campaign with Kate Moss. 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. (Image credit: Photography by Mario Sorrenti) Kate by Mario Sorrenti presents intimate, never-before-published photographs taken just before Kate Mosss rise to fame, in one elegant volume.

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