Surroundings are idyllic and modest, actions unguarded, sweet and endearing. She's make-up free, un-coiffed and happily, casually naked or half dressed, in pretty much every frame.
Here's Kate asleep, Kate playing on her Nintendo Gameboy, Kate showering, reading, smoking, and wearing her boyfriend's Y-fronts. and Kate Moss, from Croydon, England, on the brink of attaining bonafide supermodel status, is just 19 years old. "The year is 1993 the hot movies are Jurassic Park and Groundhog Day while the pop charts are buzzing with debut album releases by newcomers Bjork, Radiohead and Suede. Placed inside a clamshell box cover, Kate is truly an obsession."- /uk 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. Kate features a rare 50-image series of never-before-published photographs taken just before Moss' rise to fame. Though there are quite a few couples from yesteryear that history cannot help but mourn, perhaps none are more editorially ironic nor on better terms than Kate Moss and Mario Sorrenti. There's an intimacy and authenticity which sets these images apart from the usual commercial seduction between model and consumer."- Financial Times "These photos show the (largely naked) 17 year-old before her flawless face became as famous as the Mona Lisa's: hanging up a bikini on a makeshift washing line, or swimming in a natural pool, her unmade-up beauty mirroring the wildness of the desert island setting. "Mario Sorrenti's photographs of his former girlfriend prove that intimacy can't be faked. 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. 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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