Cosby has been accused of raping women he drugged before the attack. I guess this guy would go out and get them for him.” She also says she didn’t drink alcohol” at the time, and speculated that her sobriety probably saved her. “I said to Lou, ‘I really need to tell someone because I feel that bringing all of this out in the public, I’m one more nail in the coffin who will keep him from doing this again.”įerrigno claims Cosby “loved young blonde pretty girls. I don’t need the publicity, I’ve been Lou’s manager for 35 years,” Ferrigno continued. Read more Bill Cosby Refuses to Address Rape Allegations in Uncomfortable AP Interviewįerrigno claims she started hearing other stories about Cosby five years ago, and she told a girlfriend, who didn’t believe her. … I never said anything to anybody in all these years.” When she told him that it was “no different,” Ferrigno said an angered Cosby responded: “Oh yeah? You wouldn’t have said that if it weren’t different.” And he came at me again and I just pushed and jumped and ran and I got out of his way and ran out of the hall and this guy was coming out of one of the rooms and I said I want to go home. I just took my hands and pushed him away and said, ‘What are you doing?’ and I said ‘Hey, well, I’ve never been kissed by a black man before.'” Then, “he grabbed me, pulled me to him and kisses me on the mouth like really, really rough,” Ferrigno said. Read more Bill Cosby Tour Continues on Amid Rape Allegations Cosby’s wife, Camille, retired early, Ferrigno’s date disappeared and she was left alone playing pool with Cosby. I’m literally shaking in my body from all of this,” Ferrigno said as she began her account on the show.Īfter the foursome watched a movie together, they decamped for Cosby’s home. “You had Naomi, of course, but also, for the first time, a whole cast of Black models to work with. While the industry still faces challenges when it comes to diversity, Le Gouès said he began seeing better representation take shape during the ‘90s. Including some of those same subjects in “90’s” felt important to present a more representative snapshot of the era. This was a deliberate choice, according to Le Gouès, who worked extensively with women of African heritage and ethnicity in those years (in 1997, he published a book featuring exclusively Black fashion models, “Soul”). Many of the book’s photographs feature faces that are still recognizable today, including Eva Herzigová, Elle Macpherson, Campbell and Tatjana Patitz - all names Le Gouès helped put on the map with his photos.īut the book also showcases a crop of lesser-known models, a number of whom are Black. “There was a relationship of friendship and respect that I think is harder to find today, when everything is so much more fast-paced and we’re constantly fed new images,” he said. It helped that the photographer had established a deep trust with many of the models he worked with (Bruni, who has written the preface for “90’s,” describes the photographer’s perspective as “very special: imbued with delicacy and empathy”). “I’ve always liked to highlight the beauty of my subjects, with no distractions or elaborate sets.” “The ‘90s was a decade of experimentation, and that’s what I did when it came to my photos,” Le Gouès said. In another, Naomi Campbell is captured in a way that’s both stirring and sensual, without feeling overly sexy. ![]() In one, Carla Bruni’s body appears almost ethereal rather than made of flesh and blood. If the composite shots look straight out of a film noir - all darkness and light, femme fatale characters and sultry details - the portraits have a dream-like quality to them, as if offering viewers a secret glimpse of a different, almost unreal kind of beauty. Most are charged with strong, sometimes edgy elements - a reflection of the tastes of the time, exemplified sartorially by designers like John Galliano, Azzedine Alaïa , and Alexander McQueen among others. Indeed, Le Gouès’ images are strikingly dramatic. Thierry Le Gouès/Courtesy powerHouse Books Naomi Campbell posing for the French photographer.
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