"For the January 1990 cover of British Vogue, the editor at the time, Liz Tilberis, wanted me to capture the new mood, and woman, of the ’90s. When I thought about the concept, I thought there can’t just be one face to represent a whole decade, there has to be a group of women, and so we shot Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford all together on the corner of Watt Street in downtown New York. There was a fantastic energy on that shoot, and over the past few years I’ve done more portraits of them together. It’s very touching to see that they’re still as close, and just as beautiful. I have always tried to show the real, gritty side of New York as the backdrop to my work; from Donna Karan’s first DKNY campaign in 1989 to the many shoots I have done for Harper’s Bazaar and US and Italian Vogue. I’m constantly inspired by the rough, wild version of New York as immortalized in black and white mafia films like Once Upon a Time in America, or On The Waterfront with Marlon Brando, or Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise, which I think perfectly captures the dark side of the city. I like places with an edge, like the Meatpacking District and Dumbo in Brooklyn, the then-barren back streets beneath the Manhattan Bridge."

(Peter Lindbergh, pseudonimo di Peter Brodbeck, fotografo; Leszno, 23 novembre 1944 – Parigi, 3 settembre 2019)