How did Kevin Klein choose the muse?

In connection with the release of the long-awaited album of photos of the advertising campaigns of the Calvin Klein brand, its founder and permanent mastermind, Mr. Kelvin Klein, gave an interview to the Instyle publication.

From it, fans of the brand have learned about the relationship of the meter with the beloved muse, Kate Moss. It's no secret that the British fashion model earned her reputation through cooperation with these couturiers. In fact, Kelvin Klein opened the girl to the haute couture industry.

However, as it became known, if not a favorable coincidence, Kate's fashionable debut might not have been. It turns out that initially the fashion designer wanted to make the face of his Campaign perfect another girl, not a model at all:

"I had a desire to work with the Frenchwoman Vanessa Paradis. I saw that the girl in my advertising should not be like the supermodels with which we had worked together before. I saw Vanessa sensual, beautiful, but as if resembling a boy, or androgynous. "

About how he would like to build the upcoming advertising campaign, Kelvin Klein told his associate, the eminent photographer Patrick Demarchelier. About a week later, he called back the meter and invited me to come to his studio, where he was waiting for the young Kate Moss.

Output of the long-awaited edition

Photos and Kate, and other favorite couture models can be considered in his new album. In it under one cover are collected rare shots about which fans of the fashionable guru dreamed for many years:

"I do not want to show off, but I've been asked about this book for many years. Jacqueline Onassis addressed me with this request, and she was one of the first. I do not know why she needed it? Then Anna Wintour always reminded me of this. But I do not like looking back. I live in the moment and look to the future. In addition, I was afraid that all these emotions would be too strong for me, I was elementary afraid to dive into them. "

Mr. Klein decided to issue this publication for the sake of his students. It turns out that many of them know the name of the fashion designer, but are not familiar with his work.

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