I was booked for a Vogue Italia editorial in New York, with Steven Meisel, who is a super mega important photographer who did all the covers for Vogue Italia, well, he did all the f*cking campaigns, I mean, if you shoot with Steven Meisel, it’s one big event because the guy.. if he likes you, if he keeps using you, you have guaranteed success and money in your pocket to like buy a house in Manhattan!. Well, I went to the shooting in this fancy hotel in New York and I was super happy. On top of that, it was a prom queen story […]
So, it was really good, super nice, it was incredible to see the whole production and seeing Steven Meisel was like super intimidating, I mean, to have Steven Meisel give you directions, it was like ‘yes, sir, yes, sir, of course yes, I’m at your disposal’, they give him massages, I mean, everything, you know? but it is something that is normal and the truth is that a lot of directors do it, because the guy is a director, he doesn’t take… at the time he didn’t actually press click on the camera cause he was all behind the scenes, kind of watching from a screen and he has a ton of assistants and it's normal because you're a big deal, you're important and you have many assistants and you're focused on something other than clicking on the photo.
The thing is that, at the time, I don't know if it still exists because I hated it and never wanted to go back there, there was The Fashion Spot [...] and I had been asked in an interview, for.. I don't know if it was Harper’s Bazaar Argentina, they asked me what it was like to shoot with Steven Meisel and I said 'look, it's like incredible, he's an art director, he has assistants who take the photos, he's behind the scenes directing everything'. And the thing is that, in Steven Meisel’s (thread) in The Fashion Spot, because they put together… the fashionspot is like [..] threads, topics of each model and photographers and all the people in fashion have their own (thread), it's like pre- instagram, like you're kind of famous to be there. It was crazy because the bloggers scanned everything, the users, with nicknames so you didn’t know who the f*ck they were, they’d scan, knew everything, that is […] an editorial would come out and I would go to The Fashion Spot and there was already a user who had uploaded all the photos, they bought all the magazines and uploaded them [...] and sometimes they commented a lot about your career like ‘she's doing really good', ‘she's disappeared', ‘she's super ugly', 'she's super fat’, I mean, they commented on everything, everything.
And on Steven Meisel's [thread] they commented like 'oh I found an editorial where Naomi says that Steven Meisel doesn't take the photos'… WHAT FOR. Steven Meisel is addicted to being all day with his a*s sitting on his desk looking at the internet and searching for whatever the hell people say about him and so the guy sees that and calls my agent and says ‘Naomi is out for me, I crossed her off my list, she's completely crossed off my list because she said I don't take the photos, she revealed a secret', ah s*it... I was given a lot of s*it at my agency, and it was like, ‘you're a dumba*s, the guy really liked you, why the f*ck did you open your mouth?’, and I was like 'but they don't understand what I said!', these a*sholes from TFS, these as*holes over here, screwed up my chance to work with Steven Meisel!, I mean, they screwed up a lot of money, because that's money.
Later I decided.. I had planned this with my agency, because you also plan things like giving gifts to clients and well, we planned to write him a little apology letter like, I kiss your ***, I’ll wipe your poop, whatever you want, with a drawing, because I I always gave drawings, the models gave flowers and I sent drawings, with a drawing made for Steven Meisel because he likes art a lot. Well I send it in the mail and the next day I went to Texas for another job and there was a hurricane in New York that day, Sandy, and the great news, all the mail was lost, flooded, because the whole city was flooded so ciao, that f*cking drawing never got to Steven Meisel and I think that after that I kind of said f*ck it, I’m going to make music and I'll be an artist and I'm going to sh*t on all of you.
