Looking back at the ads that jump started Kate Moss' career and gave Calvin Klein a new edge:
Author:Aria DarcellaPublish date:Aug 28, 2018Welcome to Pop Culture Week! While you can always find us waxing poetic about the hefty overlap between fashion and pop culture, we're dedicating the next five days to the subject of our favorite music, movies, TV, celebrities, books and theater, and how that all intersects with the fashion industry.
Boy Meets GirlMoss and Sorrenti met when he was still a model, and had traveled to London for work. They quickly fell in love while navigating burgeoning careers. Moss helped Sorrenti navigate London while he was staying there, and he returned the favor when she moved to New York — the two even moved in together, despite the fact that she was only 18, and he was not much older at 20 years-old.
"I said, 'I'd like to meet your boyfriend who took these pictures,' because to me they said 'obsession.' [Sorrenti] was obsessed, in a very good way, with her," Klein recalled. Though when they met Sorrenti was still very much an amateur, Klein was so sure of his chemistry with Moss that the designer offered as many resources as he could."I said, 'We will show you what you need to know.
"[Klein] took a big risk by just sending Kate and I to this place on our own and especially when the pictures came back and the majority of the pictures were all nude and she was naked on the couch," Sorrenti said."That was a big, a big chance and he decided to put that big billboard of Kate naked on the couch in Times Square."
They succeeded because they didn't set out to make a great campaign, they set out to make beautiful pictures, period — something that ultimately resonated with the audience."I sensed something in him, and in the two of them," Klein said of the results."It was really hot. It was sexy. It was really kind of great, and the sales went through the roof after that."
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