It was Britain’s hottest day on record, and in a huge, un-air-conditioned set in King’s Cross, you could tell.
Joining me to swelter slowly and crouch in front of one of the free-standing fans were none other than supermodels Cara Delevingne, Lila Moss and Adwoa Aboah. Misery likes company, and the company was top tier. They were here, alongside Chinese model He Cong and photographer Emma Summerton, to shoot 2023’s Pirelli calendar. It is the prestigious, annual creative undertaking of the Italian tyre manufacturing company, which started as a racier endeavour 58 years ago and is now the stomping ground of A-list photographers, from Patrick Demarchelier to Annie Leibovitz, and cultural icons including Yoko Ono and Nicole Kidman.
