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Kate Moss image inspires sunglass relaunch

Photographic essay of Kate Moss uses iconic image from 1992 to inspire sunglass re-issue by Christian Roth

Christian Roth has reintroduced the iconic Series-4001 sunglass in collaboration with the style photographer Stephanie Pfriender Stylander.

The idea for the collaboration came from a book cover featuring the style on a young Kate Moss. The image is from 1992, just as she stormed the fashion world as an edgy 17 year old. The book, The Untamed Eye, is a fashion tome of monographs released by photographer Stephanie Pfriender Stylander in September of last year. She said: ‘When I shot these pictures, we were at the beginning of our careers. We were young and unknown, and the story plays homage to that — romanticising this period of youthful innocence.’

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