
Kirsten for Romeo Gigli, London 1988
Paolo Roversi's fashion photograph of model Kirsten for designer Romeo Gigli, shot in London in 1988.
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
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🔨 Auction Lot
In the Studio of Paolo Roversi
July 1, 2021
Estimate: $3,000 to $5,000
Lot 26
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Artists in conversation

Sarah Moon
French · b. 1941

Sarah Moon's fashion photography shares Roversi's signature dreamlike, painterly quality with soft grain and a romantic atmospheric mood that transforms garments into poetic visual narratives rather than mere product images.

Deborah Turbeville
American · b. 1932

Turbeville pioneered a similarly ethereal and melancholic approach to fashion photography, using soft focus and muted tones to create intimate and haunting portraits of women that echo Roversi's pictorialist sensibility.

Guy Bourdin
French · b. 1928

Like Roversi's work for Romeo Gigli, Bourdin treated fashion photography as fine art by prioritizing mood and visual storytelling, pushing the boundaries of the medium through unconventional lighting and an intensely personal artistic vision.
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