Douglas Perrett is a renowned New York-based casting director (founder of COACD) who became a cult figure in the fashion industry for documenting the “raw” beginnings of some of the world’s most famous supermodels. In 2012, he released a limited-edition book titled Wild Things, which compiled his personal collection of casting Polaroids taken between 2000 and 2010. These photos capture models at their first “go-sees” – often makeup-free, unretouched, and long before they became household names, including Miranda Kerr, Chanel Iman, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Candice Swanepoel...
These Polaroids are highly regarded for showing models in a neutral vision of their appearance, stripped of the professional hair, makeup, and lighting of later editorial shoots. The collection serves as a visual record of the “casting era” before digital photography fully replaced the instant physical Polaroid as the primary tool for casting directors.
The book is famous for showing the “before” versions of models who later defined the 2000s and 2010s fashion eras. Only 250 copies of the book were originally printed, making it a rare artifact of 2000s fashion history.
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