Hence, he came to be one of Condé Nast’s darlings throughout fashion’s last real golden era – a time, he is forthcoming about, when youthful curiosity merged with the emergence of the supers.
Befriending the late Vogue editor Franca Sozzani while in Italy, his career quickly ascended. Having initially interned at a radio studio in Brittany while a teen in the early 80s – a short stint that saw him play technician, finding his tribe amongst the station’s DJs – Le Goués later moved to Paris and found work at the much celebrated Studio Pin-Up, the go-to shoot space of influential photographers such as Peter Lindbergh and Paolo Roversi, whom he came to assist. “Imbued with delicacy and empathy, the shots are simple and joyful we laugh a lot.” As well as a contact sheet from the Goldfinger cover, an earlier Moss editorial shot in Ladakh for Harpers & Queen and several pictures of Bruni, inside the likes of Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Eva Herzigová all feature. “Thierry’s eye on his models is very special,” writes France’s former First Lady. Published next month by powerHouse Books, 90’s brings together a remarkable portfolio of supermodels, introduced by Le Goués’s friend and early muse Carla Bruni. The image is about to re-enter fashion’s collective consciousness, selected by the French photographer to front a new book of his photographs from the most talked about of decades, the 1990s. “I had no idea when I started shooting Kate she would become so iconic – I would have shot with her even more!” “She was a new superstar,” recalls Thierry Le Goués, who was commissioned by Esquir e and came up with the James Bond-inspired look with makeup artist Kenny Campbell (‘GOLDEN GIRL: Kate Moss conquers the world’ ran the tagline). Following a landmark year for the then 19-year-old, in which she covered her first issue of Vogue and posed for an Obsession by Calvin Klein campaign – iconic but subsequently controversial jobs shot by her friend Corinne Day and boyfriend at the time Mario Sorrenti – Kate Moss concluded 1993 engulfed in gold paint.
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