For 43 years, the Pirelli tire company's limited-edition annual calendar has been highly coveted, not least because it's not for sale—instead, it's only distributed to a select list of VIPs. Rizzoli's new 640-page collection, The Complete Pirelli Calendars—not to be confused, of course, with 2004's The Pirelli Calendar: The Complete Works—collects every
picture ever published, including shots by the world's top fashion photographers of Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, Eva Herzigova, Natalia Vodianova, and 200 other nubile nudes. The results range from arty to quasi-pornographic, but the best, of course, meld the two.
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JARED PAUL STERN
5:57 AM, March 13, 2008
Photo: Courtesy of Rizzoli
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