书名：Models Matter / 模特风采
作者：Christopher Niquet (编辑)，Steven Meisel (前言)
出版社：Damiani，2017年
装帧：平装，120页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 24.1*29.7 cm (9.5 x 11.7 英寸)
ISBN：978-88-6208-519-9

简介

2008年，法国知名造型师克里斯托弗·尼凯（Christopher Niquet）在比弗利山庄的一家餐厅偶遇60年代超模佩吉·莫菲特（Peggy Moffitt）。从不追求签名的他，却感到有必要向她索要签名。这个坦率的瞬间点燃了一场执着的、持续至今的追寻。尼凯开始联系那些他认为在其行业中具有代表性地位的模特——因其史诗般的美貌和遥远的 aura。他运用侦探般的方法在全球定位这些模特，收集了100个签名，其中大部分与一张标志性肖像一起装裱。

“我的初衷是超越这些偶像抽象、无形的美，找回一种身体的存在感。对我来说，每个签名都为那个想象中的存在恢复了女性的现实。”本书突显了从1950年代末到1990年代那些著名或被遗忘的女性各自独特的个性，以及她们的共同点：激发观者创造力的力量。通过一代代的封面故事，《模特风采》探索了一部多层次的女性美历史，从简·诗琳普顿到杰里·霍尔，从劳伦·白考尔到琳达·伊万格丽斯塔，从安妮塔·帕伦伯格到娜奥米·坎贝尔——她们都是史蒂文·梅塞尔（撰写前言）、欧文·佩恩和理查德·阿维顿等杰出时尚摄影师的缪斯。

In 2008, Christopher Niquet, a well-known French stylist, spotted the 1960s supermodel Peggy Moffitt in a Beverly Hills restaurant. Never an autograph chaser, he nonetheless felt compelled to ask for hers. This candid moment ignited an obsessive, ongoing quest. Niquet began to reach out to the models he considered quintessential figures in his industry, for their epic beauty and remote auras. Deploying a sleuth's methods to locate these models around the globe, he collected 100 signatures, most of which are framed along with an iconic portrait. "My original purpose was to get beyond the abstract, incorporeal beauty of these icons, and bring back a sense of their physicality. For me, each signature restored a womanly reality to the imaginary being." This book highlights the unique personalities of celebrated or forgotten women from the late 1950s to the 1990s and what they all have in common: the power to awaken creativity in the people who see them. Through generations of cover stories, 'Models Matter' explores a multi-layered history of feminine beauty, from Jean Shrimpton to Jerry Hall, Lauren Bacall to Linda Evangelista, Anita Pallenberg to Naomi Campbell, muses for extraordinary fashion lensmen like Steven Meisel (who wrote the preface), Irving Penn, and Richard Avedon.