Naomi Campbell has revealed her iconic GQ cover shoot with Skepta was actually never meant for publication.
Turns out we were just lucky.
The shoot, which showed the pair stripped down to their underwear in stunning photos amid romance rumours, were only made public when Naomi ‘made some calls’ and got GQ to drop their initial cover stars.
A power move if we ever saw one.
Chatting to Manny Norte on Capital Xtra’s The Norte Show, the model explained: ‘Well can I tell you a secret about that, which I hope Skeppy won’t mind? Junior actually, I don’t call him Skepta, I call him Junior.
‘We basically did that shoot on our own, it wasn’t for any publication, and once I saw the pictures I was like “No, no, no we should come out.” And so then I started making some calls.
‘It wasn’t like I was going to wait months for it to come out – it’s either got to come out in the next few or it ain’t coming out at all. So first I had to send someone with the pictures and da-da-da, and then, you know, of course Dylan [Jones] did have other people lined up for that cover.’
The 49-year-old added: ‘Dylan Jones from GQ, he had other people lined up, and so I was basically telling him “unline them”. And I was like “you need to put this [on the] cover!”
‘And actually I’ve gotta give him the credit, he did do it and he did push it up and it came out in March and I think, you know, for me it was for the culture. It was for us, it was for all of us.’
Naomi recalled: ‘It was fun shooting it, and Junior just loves the camera. He’s great. And the whole team, we shot that in one day in New York, like hours, because I remember he got off a plane straight from London and came to the shoot.’
Truly iconic.
More recently, Naomi’s been keeping herself busy by serving looks at events including The Fashion Awards, and the recent Saint Laurent outdoor show, which saw her getting caught in the rain.
So many events, so little time.
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