How do you photograph the LOVE of your life? Is it possible to capture something so unique? Maybe you can’t — and shouldn’t even try. MARIO SORRENTI, who has photographed the world’s most beautiful women, asked himself this question about MARY FREY, before photographing his muse, the secret indispensable force in his work and life.
Mario’s solution was to compose a story featuring fashion pictures in his iconic style, personal pictures, and a voyeuristic series that recalls Marcel Duchamp’s Etant donné (1946–66), the tableaux vivant of a nude woman, her legs spread revealing herself through a peephole, all using Mary as his model.
Mario’s frontal and cosmically sidereal perspectives capture his LOVE, her beauty simultaneously perceived and contemplated.
White silk and cotton suit jacket BALMAIN and Mary’s own ring
Vintage denim jumpsuit CALVIN KLEIN and mirror platform shoes JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER
Black lace dress ANDRES SARDA, black leather platform shoes CHRISTOPHER KANE and Mary’s own ring
Black lace body DAMARIS and Mary’s own ring
Black silk jacket STELLA MCCARTNEY and Mary’s own ring
Jane How @ STREETERS, stylist — Bob Recine @ THE WALL GROUP, hair — Franck B. @ THE WALL GROUP, make-up — Tatyana Molot @ ARTISTS BY NEXT, manicurist — Javier Villegas and Johnny Vicari, photographer’s assistants – Heather Sommerfield, digital operator — Kerry Dorney and Alex Winston, stylist’s assistants — Shin Arima, hair assistant – Katie Fash and Steve Sutton, producers — BOX LTD, printing
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Valentine Fillol-Cordier
by Ellen von Unwerth, Magnus Unnar, Mark Borthwick, Vanna Sorrenti, Theo Wenner
A taste of the Spring Summer 2009 collections
by Camille Bidault-Waddington
by Olympia Le-Tan
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm and Dash Snow
by Shamim Momin
by Mario Sorrenti
by David Lynch
by Ellen von Unwerth, Magnus Unnar, Mark Borthwick, Vanna Sorrenti, Theo Wenner
by Max Farago
by Ari Marcopolous
by Ari Marcopolous
by Bernard-Henri Levy
by Steven Klein
by Noritoshi Hirakawa
by Glenn O'Brien
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm