Posing demurely in their anonymous interior-decorated homes, like their pampered pets, they appear perfectly tamed, preened and manicured. The pictures, shot in just four days in palatial Los Angeles residences, feature leading fashion supermodels Amber Valetta and Georgina Grenville as virtually identical women with their elegant frocks, dressed platinum hairstyles, full make-up, and huge rock-like jewels. At a time when the teenager continues to be the cultural staple catered for in both the fashion and music world with Teen Vogue, boy bands and singers like Britney Spears, Meisel's Versace Pictures reintroduce the notion of the grown-up woman. Taken from The White Cube website: "19 July – 1 September 2001 Hoxton Square In his first-ever European gallery presentation Steven Meisel exhibited a number of large-format photographs that form the core of the acclaimed advertising campaign he had recently shot for Versace. Interview by Vince Aletti with Steven Meisel. "Four Days in LA: The Versace Pictures" Foreword by Jay Jopling.
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