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Mario Sorrenti is a photographer and director best known for his nude photo spreads in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.
Coming from a background of artists and photographers, he self taught himself first using personal black and white images assembled in dense diaries. This caught of the eye of art director Phil Bicker which led to his first advertising commissions with the Calvin Klein brand.
Mario has worked campaigns and directed commercials for Calvin Klein, most notably Kate Moss for the Calvin Klein Obsession ads. Other work on his resume include Prada, Yves Saint Laurent, Lancome, Benetton, and Paco Rabanne.
Mario Sorrenti's style is basic experimentation where his fascination lies with the process of making images.
You Just Do You, Imma Do Me
Camille
"You only want me because of my fame, so you can go fuck yourself. Calvin [Klein] is my partner -- you don't understand because you don't have that. I am famous now, and people want me for my fame, and you should be careful 'cause of the people I know and what they could do to you." - Porn actor Nick Gruber, responding to Playgirl editor Daniel Nardicio.
"Calvin, darling, you're embarrassing yourself. What's worse, you're embarrassing the whole community. You were never really that much of a gay hero in the first place. Remember when you suddenly had a wife because, as AIDS made it uncool to be gay, you took the wussy way out and closeted yourself so you could sell more T shirts and perfume? That was a hideous approach and I screamed my lungs out about it--but it was better than now! Now you've hooked up with that almost-21-year-old ex-porn star, Nick Gruber, and you're fawning over him as if this were real love and not a massive late-life crisis being acted out for the horrified masses. It's not going to work!" - Michael Musto, dishing Calvin Klein for the invitation to Gruber's birthday party, which describes the event at "the hottest ticket for New York's gay and fashion elite!"
