Veteran exhibitionist Kate Moss never tires of stripping for Pirelli calendar

She's at it again: Veteran exhibitionist Kate Moss never tires of stripping for Pirelli calendar

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 2:56 PM on 9th December 2011


She's more famous for keeping her clothes on, or modelling them that is.

But Kate Moss has stripped down to nothing for an appearance in Pirelli's 2012 calendar.

The Croydon-born supermodel, 37, lets it all hang out for the new publication which also features a number of other models who have also shed their clothing in the name of 'art'.

Supermodel behaviour: Kate Moss poses for a stunning shot featured in the Pirelli 2012 calendar

In the stunning black and white photograph, Kate reclines on a rocky surface using her experience as a supermodel to remain professional and appear as comfortable as if she was perched on a soft cushion and not a hard slab of rock.


The calendar was shot by Mario Sorrenti and also features a topless Lara Stone, wife of David Walliams, and naked Milla Jovovich - its 25-photo spread includes 18 black-and-whites and seven coloured pictures.

This year's calendar was shot in Corsica by the legendary Italian photographer, who chose his muses very carefully.

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Mario - who used to be a model before moving behind the camera, and also shot Scarlett Johansson for Mango this year - has known Kate and Milla since they were starting out in the fashion industry as teenagers.

In fact Milla feels so confident with him that she said recently: 'Mario is pretty much the only person I would take my clothes off for'.

These shots are likely to be the only ones most mere mortals will be able to view.

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Since it's inception in 1964, Pirelli has instructed leading photographers to capture the world's most beautiful women on film for the exclusive calendar solely as a gift for royalty, celebrities and VIP customers.

Pirelli's calendar, dubbed "The Cal," was unveiled to media and collectors in New York at The Armory, its unveiling coupled with an exclusive, black-tie VIP dinner.

According to USA Today, Mario Sorrenti is the first Italian photographer to shoot the illustrious spread for the tyre manufacturers.

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He is renowned for shooting classic and, most importantly, classy nude editorials, which is no doubt the reason behind him being chosen to shoot this year's photographs.

But he insisted that, despite the nudity, the 2012 calendar is not sexy.

He told Women's Wear Daily: 'You know, originally I thought I was going to do very sexy pictures, and when we got there I realized that I didn't want the pictures to be sexy at all.'

'I meant that they're not 'obviously' sexy. I didn't want them to be posing and arching and like sticking their boobs in my face or anything like that.

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'I thought that's what I wanted, that it would give the most immediate impact, but then I realized that wasn't important.... I was trying to just really focus on them and the environment and let that blossom together somehow.'

According to reports the models and crew all stayed together in houses on Corsica, while Sorrenti spent 'the morning with one girl and the evening with another, and we'd all have dinner together'.

The theme, chosen by Sorenti was 'swoon', for which he explained: 'In "swoon", I put the bodies in direct contact with Nature, which harbours them as if they were its extension, in a set of images where rocks, land, tree trunks, sky and sea are all turned into a backdrop for the bodies.'

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