Thing of Beauty by Stephen Fried

Author:Stephen Fried [Fried, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, General
ISBN: 9781451676402
Google: E55UYXoilEYC
Amazon: 0671701053
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1993-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

11

Life During Wartime

A few days after the Versace shoot, a handful of the top models came together again for a different kind of sitting: an editorial shot for Interview to plug Sandy Linter’s book. Sandy had written or, rather, had been packaged into a how-to manual on “the new nighttime makeup” called Disco Beauty. The book featured photos of most of the top models of the day. Each picture was accompanied by a paint-by-number schematic drawing, detailing how “a good face—one that has been properly colored and contoured—creates an excitement, a magic and an evanescence that symbolizes the blinking, slinking, frantic fantasy world of an all-night disco.” The book had a cover shot of Bitten and opened to a picture of Juli Foster—topless and looking faux orgasmic. Then came a portrait of Sandy, the “most exciting new makeup artist in the country,” peering out through a soft-focus haze as part angel, part bleary-eyed, pouty-lipped disco queen. The rest was a hodgepodge of pictures culled from various editorial and test sessions Linter had done.

Photographer Michael Tighe had been assigned by Interview to take a picture of Linter with some of her model pals: Gia, Juli Foster and Patti Hansen. Under normal conditions, the shot would have taken no time at all. Tighe was known for his quick, controlled sessions and, besides, nobody was being paid. But normal conditions were no longer in vogue.

“Everyone was outloonying each other in one way or another,” recalled Marc Balet, then Interview art director. “Everyone was strange or stoned or drunk. The picture could have taken forty-five minutes to an hour. Instead, the makeup alone took an hour, and it took about six hours to take this picture. This is around when everything became very crazy in the business.”

Kay Mitchell, who came along with Hansen, recalled the session as the first time she realized Gia’s feelings for Sandy were romantic. “The two of them were obsessive,” she said, “and that became, really, pretty awkward. It seemed like quite a romance, you know, and it was the first time I had really actually been there.”

“They all kind of showed up,” recalled Tighe. “I especially remember Gia. They had all put on their Interview T-shirts. Then Gia took off her shirt and was naked for a while and, well, it was an extraordinary figure she had. I was just quite taken with her beauty. Sandy took her shirt off too. The idea was to shoot them from overhead, all circled around Sandy. I ended up climbing on a ladder, and they were all sort of curled up with each other on the floor, just being very sexy with each other.

“I was trying to direct them, and they were rather rude to me. They just wanted to play with each other and have fun. I remember looking at Marc very frustrated and he got the clue I was having problems with them. He tried to direct them as much as he could.

“They were all very intimate with each other, but it’s easy for girls to be like that.

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