so usually my excitement is brought into play by any thing from croched earpluggs to a new abbey lee editorial, but this time, my excitement is great. greater than great. Mario testino has long been one of my favourite photographers alongside Greg Kadel. Mario captured my mind/heart and soul with Mario De Janeiro Testino, his major publication, but his long awaited Mario Testino-Kate Moss book is almost available. Featuring exclusive essays written by Kate Moss herself, and a flowing conversation between the two, the book gives us an insight into the story of their beauitful friendship, all documented with private photos and footnotes written at the time.
Mario says “I met Kate very early on. Shortly after her first Galliano show I went backstage to congratulate her, only to find her crying: she was disappointed that she had only been given one outfit to model in the show. My answer to her was this: “In life there are perfumes and colognes. You need to use lots of cologne as the scent fades away; with a perfume you just use a drop and it lasts all night. You are a perfume, you will go on and on.” Little did I know just how true that would become! And that I had made a friend for life.”
“Mario took me to a new level of glamour. I don’t think anybody had seen me as any kind of sexy model before he did. He was the one that transformed me. Before him I was just a grungy girl, but he saw me differently. He was the first to say “Oh, she’s quite sexy. I’ve seen her out! I know she’s not just that grungy girl.” He’d seen me in a pair of heels, getting glamorous – and he was the first to start taking pictures of me in that way. He changed the way people thought about me as a model, for sure. Later other people started working with me in that way, but he was the first.” - kate
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