Kate Moss in The Face Photographed by Corinne Day
Ladies and gentlemen, the latest Reference Library from contributer Max regarding Kate Moss' seminal cover of The Face that launched the grunge/anti-model/ultra-realness school of 90's fashion.
This is one of my most inspirational shoots, from the beginning of my career as a model agent to this day.I can still remember seeing this editorial for the first time and being shocked and inspired by Corinne’s choice of using Kate, who was at that time a relative unknown new face at Storm Models. Kate was such a departure from the general SUPERMODEL/GLAMAZON look of models at that time, and also because the shoot was so “minimal” in terms of styling, make up, etc. that it signified a complete change in fashion’s direction.
Kate Moss in The Face Photographed by Corinne Day
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A bit of Kismet with Kate happened when Sophie Blanpied, then the model/photography editor of French Glamour called the agency I worked for, with an emergency situation. French Glamour had a shoot booked with photographer Robert Erdmann and model Irene Pfeiffer, who had cancelled due to illness at the last minute. I submitted Kate, knowing that she was in NY with BOY/GIRL and we confirmed her as a last minute replacement, flown in by the magazine. The shoot went amazingly and the editorial enhanced Kate’s modeling career from being a “strange/singularity” into more of a mainstream publication (Conde Nast) as opposed from just non mainstream publications such as THE FACE.
Kate Moss in The Face Photographed by Corinne Day
But it was that FACE shoot that truly started Kate’s career, and also set off so many other changes in fashion, modeling, photography, etc. that is still influential today. On a more personal level, these events involving myself and Kate strengthened my confidence as an agent blessed with an “eye/vision” for finding new models which I carry to this day.
Max
KATE MOSS KATE MOSS KATE MOSS
http://uber.com/harmarsuperstar love KM.
When Love enters through the Eyes
It is like a Thunderbolt
- Sicilian Proverb
AURARISMA1 - YOU ARE LEGENDARY
Aurarisma1 - You are LEGENDARY - Please, Please, Please give us more history and wisdom! Your last posting reminds me of when I was a teenager checking out DETAILS magazine (when it was a black and white magazine) and wishing for the day, and actually inspiring me, to travel to NY....I am an ADMIRER, FAN, KINDRED SPIRIT AND STUDENT of your WISDOM!!!
XOXO
T.M. AKA FASHIONPARASITE!
Keep On Ranting!
Keep it flowing ! I love it! Passion is what makes the difference between mediocrity and genius!
KEEP ON RANTING
Hey TI,
I just had a "epiphany / lightbulb" idea. What do you think about me submitting my rants, as well as correspondences of what's "hip / happening / hot / of interest" IN my world to you and THE IMAGIST?
Let me know cause I'm right now really expanding on my writing / journalistic avenues of expression.....
Yours Truly,
T.M. A.K.A. FASHIONPARASITE
This is the dream
Please do my dear TM !
Welcome aboard. Let's talk abt stories you want to do. This is the whole idea of TI. Not just about me and my tastes but about you and your tastes and your influences and your POV too. 10 years in NY when I was a club kid, I knew NOTHING about fashion or seasons or corporate market research. In the clubs I'd meet people who were models and stylists and photographers and editors. And they'd talk...all night...about this genius Galliano collection with Kate as a Russian cazarina fleeing the Bolsheviks in the night...or about this rising stylist named Carine Roitfeld...or about their Maharishi pants. And I absorbed it all. But now I want to go back to that and talk all night with the new rising editors and stylists and models and photographers and absorb a whole new layer of inspiration and information. And unlike 10 years ago I won't have to be up all night in some dodgy after-hours spot till 7am to do it lol.
XO
TI
Email for Uhura-Masai
Hey TI,
Here is the email contact for Uhura-Masai:
uhura_masai@yahoo.com
Please start sending all correspondences regarding future collaborations with this email instead of cross posting and replying bulletins via The Imagist, for privacy and internal reasons.
Regards,
T.M. AKA FASHIONPARASITE &
CURSED WITH FASHION
Your dream is a shared dream
Hey TI,
Yes, your dream is my dream, C.W.F.'s dream!! OMG...Don't get me started about my personal club history which coincided in so many ways with my career in the "B'SNESS"..I can tell you stories about wearing thigh high HELEN STOREY LEATHER CHAP BOOTS coupled with a Vivienne Westwood flesh colored bodysuit with featuring the infamous mirrored FIG LEAF...having Thierry Mugler come up to me that night and chatting each other up about EVERYTHING into the wee hours of the night....or running into him again at SAVE THE ROBOTS in NY a few years later...lol...
Yes, the amazing thing is that technology in our "NEUROMANCER" age has allowed ways to share information, as well as speed up the realizations of ideas / visions, which was not possible during our days in "THE LIFE"...All I have to say, are that my experiences in "THE LIFE", now looking back, were by luck and kismet, having been so intertwined with OUR SHARED OBSESSIONS....I have to give a shout out to Tony X-Travaganza, Scorpio X-Travaganza, Willy Ninja for taking me in and opening my eyes during my first forays "IN THE LIFE", taking the train N train from Brooklyn / Sunset Park into the City .....
We have lots to talk about; I have notebooks of ideas that are overflowing.....and THANK GOODNESS that "THE IMAGIST" is here!!!
xoxo
T.M. AKA FASHIONPARASITE
The Mudd Club, Area, Garage, and the smokey fashion corners
The Mudd Club, Area, Garage, Ice Palace, La Gamelle, Lucky Strike, Cafe Central..,.. the smokey corners that were hiding fashion Icons and Celebs...
The Era of Originality and High Visuals with Aromas and Tempos that can never be duplicated .. only imitated.. with the Minimalist Vessel of Today ....
I lived and loved that Era.. My friend Way Bandy all working in the Industry ......
The Dance floor was a Cornucopia of Light Reflecting Light Creativity flowing ...
Time is now ... what is being molded .. to form an Era...
Does anyone seee that Passion now that was so potent and a Cult in the Fashion Industry of that Era????
I could elaborate on it but I dont know who is my Audience here
Please Reply if you have lived and created in that Era xoxoxo
Aurarisma1
You Audience is captivated
Welcome Aurarisma1. Please tell us more about Way Bandy...and Ice Palace...and Cafe Central. I'm obsessed with that entire era in NY, the late 70's going thru to all of the 80's. Your presence and contribution here is invaluable. If you would rather comminicate privately, please emial me...wayne@models.com. I'm inspired by your post to know more!
XO
WS
KEEP ON RANTING
Hey TI,
AWWW...XOXO....Trust me, the FASHION "GLOW" will keep on "FLOW"ing....I just completed another RANT to our mutual friend "MAX"...I'll give you some hints -
Look for i-D Mag / Nick Knight / Leigh Bowery!!!
Don't forget to send me info on where I can get RAD from RAD H....He's now become one of my top 3 designers, included with Martin Margiela (Main line and not the secondary lines), Raf Simmons.....
Please post more amazing "news" from your PARIS trip.....
Yours Truly,
T.M. A.K.A. FASHIONPARASITE....
THE EDITORIAL THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
THANK YOU TI for publishing my rants (including this posting and the LINDA E. / PETER LINDBERGH / ITALIAN VOGUE / MASCHILE posting). The postings and your appreciation and willingness to post my rants on THE IMAGIST gives me a "warm" feeling all over, brings tears to my eyes, and makes my "obsessive / compulsive" addiction to fashion WORTH IT ALL!!
XOXO
T.M. A.K.A. F.P.