Back to Basics

Christy Turlington (now with the hyphenate Burns, post nuptials with monotone actor Edward Burns) returns to the house of Calvin Klein with a stunning women’s Fall 2013 Calvin Klein Underwear global advertising campaign.

Shot by photographer Mario Sorrenti on location in Vieques, Puerto Rico, Turlington's comeback campaign is a resplendent one, reflective of some of the most iconic images that reeled through the late '80s and early '90s.

One of the few and original supermodels, Turlington has a long-standing relationship with the house; beginning with her first runway show for Calvin Klein for the Fall 1987. In 1988, Irving Penn photographed Turlington for her first Calvin Klein Collection advertising campaign and that same year, she became the face of Calvin Klein’s scent, ETERNITY, captured by Bruce Weber. Even as I type these words a montage of black and white and sepia toned images with Turlington's scintillating beauty and her perfect nose and profile are seeping through... If Elle Macpherson was 'the body', surely Christy Turlington was 'the face'!

Turlington continued to work with legendary photographers Steven Meisel, Mario Testino, Peter Lindbergh and Jurgen Teller, for several more advertising campaigns for the Calvin Klein and its various subsidiaries (the jeans, the swimwear, the casuals, the formals...etc). While leading an illustrious career in modeling, Turlington has gone on to direct and produce No Woman, No Cry – a documentary film about the global state of maternal health. Following the release of her film in 2010, she founded Every Mother Counts (EMC), a campaign to improve the health and well-being of girls and women worldwide. The organization’s mission is to end preventable deaths caused by pregnancy and childbirth around the world. Beauty with a purpose indeed.

EDITORIAL CREDIT: Calvin Klein Underwear
IMAGE CREDIT – BEHIND THE SCENES IMAGE: Courtesy of Calvin Klein, Inc.