Refusing to bow to glossy perfection is Peter Lindbergh's trademark - the essence of the images that look into each person's unvarnished soul, however familiar or famous the sitter. But this set of pictures in the September issue of Italian Vogue seems more intense in the refusal to follow the tools of today's beauty trade: postproduction, a computerised smoothing, hair tidied, wrinkles removed. That is what he has been doing for his fashion lifetime. It is hardly surprising that the Lindbergh look for this model reunion was unvarnished. There were Nadja Auermann and Tatjana Patitz - both German, like their photographer Cindy Crawford, still with her golden girl smile a brooding, Nordic Helena Christensen Wonderbra's poster girl Eva Herzigová and Karen Alexander, as lovely with her glistening, dark skin as when Peter had shot her in a plain white shirt back in 1988. I saw Peter Lindbergh in his Paris studio just as the shock and awe of his images of supermodels 20 years on had hit the internet.
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