KATE Moss and MARK Wahlberg the Iconic 1990s CALVIN Klein – Etsy

From My Personal Collection –

You Are Looking At ONE Each – High Quality Reproduction Portrait / Poster Prints
Of The 1990s Fashion Icons KATE Moss & MARK Wahlberg – aka ‘MARKY MARK’.

Offered Here Is The Classic Calvin Klein Underwear Ad – Photographed By Herb Ritts
This High Quality Image Is Printed On Sturdy, 11 Mil Premium Paper.

THIS IS NOT A FLIMSY POSTER.

11 x 14” …… UNFRAMED .…. $ 28.00
11 x 14″ …….. FRAMED …….. $ 38.99

16 x 20″ …… UNFRAMED .…. $ 34.00
16 x 20″ …….. FRAMED …….. $ 55.00

18 x 24″ …… UNFRAMED .…. $ 48.00
18 x 24″ …….. FRAMED …….. $ 78.00

Note: FRAMED PRINTS ( For US Buyers Only )

This 11×14” Print Is Framed In The Clear Lucite ‘BOX FRAME’ Featured.
16×20″ and 18×24″ Prints Are Framed With The Black Vinyl & Lucite ‘POSTER FRAME’ Featured.

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• ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH •
In 1990s New York, it was hard to escape Calvin Klein. I’m not talking about the flagship store that went up on the corner of Madison Avenue and 60th Street in September 1995, although at 20,000 square feet, spread out over four floors of poured concrete, it was pretty darn hard to miss.

I’m talking about the designer’s ads for his underwear, which were so ubiquitous at the time that The New Yorker published a cover showing a geriatric type shocked speechless by a bus stop ad hawking men’s underwear, her mouth a pinched “O.” There was no logo on the waistband to give them away, but by then all of us had seen enough of Calvin Klein poster boy Marky Mark’s pumped-up bare chest, six-pack, and bulging briefs to guess who was implicated. “Pow,” as the rapper turned model used to say.

Mark Wahlberg, as he’s known now, was often paired with a just-as-nearly-naked Kate Moss, the beautiful waif to his beefcake. In Klein’s ads for his underwear as well as his jeans, Moss’s elfin, “underfed” frame caused some alarm. She was too skinny, the arguments went, an unrealistic, unattainable role model for the young women the commercials were targeting. But the commotion around Moss was nothing compared with the controversy a Steven Meisel–lensed Calvin Klein Jeans campaign stirred up in the early nineties.

Klein was a visual rule-breaker from the start. He posed in his own advertisements early on, and in 1980 he hired Brooke Shields, then all of fifteen, to model in an instantly notorious campaign photographed by the renowned Richard Avedon. Baby Brooke raised temperatures when she whispered, “You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.” But Klein only upped the ante from there. Let’s just say Miss Moss wasn’t the only model to pose nude to help sell bottles of Obsession, the designer’s mega hit perfume. There were others before her, in arguably much more suggestive situations. Sex was always the subtext.