kate moss meets édouard manet
here i am! long weekend is over and i am back to routine… even if i am not yet at home, so i can’t update sections. meanwhile, as a sign of life, get this intriguing version of édouard manet’s painting revisited by mario sorrenti for a 1998 campaign. that is when i like advertising, unfortunately that happens rather rarely. i like it when advertising plays with genders rules, but recently it has become more and more boring and embarassing, like a poor use of nudity and (hetero)sexual(ist) references has taken the place of creativity. so why do i like this pic? i like the artistic reference of course, but most of all i like the subvertising of roles, plus the choice of colours and the elegance of the composition. add kate moss at her best. i love kate moss, that’s the truth, i love her as a model. she reminds me of jeanne moreau, another icon of mine, and i prefer her chamaleontic enigmatic face to the superbeauties of the previous supermodels. i know i am in the minority, but in the art of modeling i never ask for flawless beauty. more on kate moss in the future.
and if you want to have fun going through revisitations and quotations of manet’s masterpieces, have a look here.
Filed under: advertising, art, beauty, models, nudity, transgender Tagged: | édouard manet, kate moss, mario sorrenti, yves saint laurent
