ciao

Benn Mitchell

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“My wife passed away last month. She started shivering when she came out of the bath, and then she fainted. I took her to the hospital but she had a heart attack before I could admit her. I’m trying to stay busy. I’m OK when I’m at work, but the minute I enter my home, I begin to think about her. Her photographs are still by my bedside. Thankfully my ten-year-old grandson has been sleeping with me. He watches my shows with me. And he talks constantly. He goes on about his school and his class and his teachers. A lot of what he says is nonsense, but I enjoy it. And when he falls asleep, I fall asleep.” (Jaipur, India)

Laetitia Casta, Naomi Campbell, Jenny Shimizu, Tanel Bedrossiantz, and Vladimir McCrary all in Jean-Paul Gaultier Spring/Summer 1994 photographed by Ellen von Unwerth for Interview Magazine