The images were seen by Calvin Klein and went on to become the famous Obsession campaign, launching his international career. Kate is a luxuriously packaged book published by Phaidon featuring 50 portraits of a young Kate Moss taken by her then-boyfriend, photographer Mario. Photographer Mario Sorrenti has known Kate Moss for over 25 years. The intimate photos were captured over the course of two years while Sorrenti and Moss were a couple. 'When you're in a relationship with a photographer and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time. At the age of 21, Mario photographed his then-girlfriend Kate Moss in carefully composed black-and-white images of quiet, unguarded intimacy. Mario Sorrenti's 'Kate' is a loving look at a young Kate Moss prior to her days as a supermodel. While there was artistic success, with Moss's famous 1992 couch photo emerging and being used in an Obsession for Men campaign, the ability to mix personal and professional roles and responsibilities didn't work well for Moss and Sorrenti-they broke up after.

The brand saw the commercial possibility and had the two shack up in a small house in order to shoot and shoot and shoot. View Kate Moss for Calvin Klein Obsession campaign by Mario Sorrenti sold at Photographs on London Auction 25 September 2020. 'Calvin was clever he saw from the pictures that it was obsession, and it really was an obsession,' she told photographer Nick Knight regarding the massive amount of photos Sorrenti was snapping of her (at the time, his professional portfolio was full of snaps he'd taken of his girlfriend, the future supermodel).

And then Calvin Klein entered the picture. Before Kate Moss was a household name worldwide, she was this: a scrawny, English model trying to break into the business with an Italian photographer boyfriend named Mario Sorrenti.

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