PHOTO RACHAEL WRIGHT
k.d. lang’s head is nestled against Cindy Crawford’s cleavage. The top button of her shirt is undone and her smile is, understandably, blissful. It’s 26 years since the August 1993 Vanity Fair hit newsstands and Herb Ritts’ photograph of same-sex sensuality is still totally arresting, gloriously queer and hot as hell.
“We knew it was provocative and powerful,” the Canadian singer tells me. “When we were shooting it, we were already pretty high from the idea, and then to be working with my friends and creating homo-erotic imagery that would become iconic… It’s something I look back on as an extraordinarily proud moment in my artistic career, for sure.”