Kate Moss by Mario Testino

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With a four decades career as a leader in the fields of fashion, culture and lifestyle, Peruvian-born Mario Testino OBE has many facets that take him beyond the surface of a photographer and artist placing him as a cultural visionary. The trust between us means that we are free with each other, he does not trap me into a set way of being, we find the picture together.

This photographic ode catalogues the journey of one of fashion's most creative collaborations, and contains many photographs from Testino's private archive, published here for the first time. Während sie mit den Werbekampagnen für Calvin Klein in den 90er Jahren schlagartig weltberühmt wurde, gab sie sich privat eher leger und understatig, was sie umso glaubwürdiger machte: Kate schlaksig, jung und erfahren wurde als Inbegriff einer neuen Ära der Coolness gefeiert. Kinmonth, Patrick, Mario Testino: Portraits, 2002 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 1 February to 4 June 2002), p. Kate Moss, geboren 1974 in London, war noch ein Teenager - sie wurde mit vierzehn auf dem New Yorker JFK-Flughafen "entdeckt" -, als die ersten Photographien, die Corinne Day von ihr machte, in dem englischen Lifestyle-Magazin The Face erschienen. Mario Testino is recognised as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fashion.Photographed here in Los Angeles, Moss described working with Testino: ‘I have grown up with him photographing me - we have grown up together in a sense. It is precisely this contrast between the apparently incidental and the impossibly glamorous which makes Testino's images continually fascinating. After the bombing much of Manchester was rebuild and in 1998 it won a successful bid to host the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

This book follows the journey of this exceptional fashion partnership, from early days backstage at the shows to behind-the-scenes glimpses of the groundbreaking editorials they continue to produce for the world’s most respected magazines. Im Lauf ihrer einzigartigen Karriere stand/lag/bewegte sich Kate Moss vor der Kamera jedes namhaften Modephotographen der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte - darunter klingende Namen wie Mario Sorrenti, Arthur Elgort, Nick Knight, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Karl Lagerfeld, Juergen Teller, Mario Testino und viele andere mehr. This marvel of a book is littered with countless iconic images that transcend fashion, celebrating the union of fashion’s most dynamic duo.Art and scienceThe Spice Girls enjoy massive popular success with their first single Wannabe going straight to Number 1. Dieser Band ist eine sehr persönliche Retrospektive auf ihre beispiellose Entwicklung vom schüchternen Teenager zum Model zum Supermodel zur Ikone nacherzählt in über 300 Photographien, die Kate Moss selbst für dieses Buch ausgesucht und zusammengestellt hat. First edition, first printing, number 1,431 of 1,500 copies numbered and signed by the photographer.