


“We did as much as you could do on the couch at that time.” “I shot her on the bed or walking around or standing up or on the couch,” Sorrenti says. I was like, ‘Leave me alone.’ I’d wake up to the click of the Pentax. He didn’t stop taking pictures even when I was sleeping. It’s never been like that since,” Moss says, adding, “Mario worked me like a dog. It was the only time I got paid to go away. “I knew it was a job, but I thought it was going to be a right laugh. There were two 200-square-foot rooms, one with a couch, the other with a bed. The Calvin Klein production team found a “dilapidated hut” on Jost Van Dyke, in the British Virgin Islands, outfitted it with the black couch, and flew the couple down for a week.

“It needed to be on the beach, but I needed a sink with a mirror, and a couch,” Sorrenti says. As Sorrenti imagined the ads, he decided to replicate the spare way that he and Moss were living. Mario and I were young and we were in love."Īt the time, Sorrenti and Moss were renting a tiny room in the London home of photographer Mark Lebon and casting agent Camilla Arthur. “We didn’t have anything to lose and didn’t care what people thought.
