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Believe it or not, there are people on the planet who don’t know who Kate Moss is. As she gazed at a striking image of the naked supermodel shot by Mario Sorrenti at the opening of The Kate Moss Portfolio and Other Stories at Danziger Projects last night, a woman turned to her friend and said, "Yes, I think she's been in a lot of magazines and things like that." Bingo! The picture in question was used circa 1993 for an ad for a little perfume called Obsession.
Moss herself didn't make an appearance—she has her forthcoming wedding to musician Jamie Hince to plan, after all—but a few of the photographers whose work is represented in the exhibition swung by. "Kate is the most interesting girl I have ever photographed," Glen Luchford told Style.com, as he cradled his newborn baby in his arms. On the birth of his work with Moss, he said, "When I worked with her over 20 years ago, she was dating Mario and we all lived and worked together." Sorrenti was standing nearby. "Kate and I originally met at a party and I was so incredibly struck by her," he said, adding that the image on display at the gallery reflects his favorite time ever working with Moss. "It was just such an amazing day."
Just a few lanes of traffic across 23rd Street, meanwhile, one of the art world's great connectors was enjoying a moment in the spotlight. Sonnets for the Portuguese—the first solo painting show in New York in 20 years by Rene Ricard, artist, poet, essayist, Warhol Factory survivor, and early champion of Jean-Michel Basquiat's work—drew a crowd that included Francesco Clemente, Terence Koh, Adam Kimmel and Leelee Sobieski, the actor Max von Sydow, and the exhibit's curator, Vito Schnabel. Among the "sonnets" painted on the canvases: a suggestive stanza Ricard had first seen scribbled in lipstick on the mirror in the bathroom of a gay bar thirty-odd years ago.
— Kristin Studeman