{"product_id":"models-matter","title":"Models Matter","description":"In 2008, Christopher Niquet, a well-known French stylist, spotted the 1960s  supermodel Peggy Moffit 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 quintessentials  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 That Matter  explores a multi-layered history of feminine beauty, from  Jean Shrimpton to Jerry Hall, from Lauren Bacall to Linda Evangelista, from Anita  Pallenberg to Naomi Campbell, muses for extraordinary fashion lensmen like Steven  Meisel-who wrote the preface-to Irving Penn or Richard Avedon.","brand":"Damiani Editore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42663916666916,"sku":"9788862085199","price":65.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9788862085199.jpg?v=1777408543","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/models-matter","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}