Booking the Pirelli Calendar is the model equivalent of going home with an Oscar – it's a sign you've finally arrived, darling. This year, long-time veteran Steven Meisel trained his lens on this year's chosen recruits, styled by Carine Roitfeld and with Pat McGrath.
Gigi Hadid, Candice Huffine, Carolyn Murphy, Cameron Russell, Isabeli Fontana, Adriana Lima, Raquel Zimmermann, Karen Elson, Joan Smalls, Natalia Vodianova, Sasha Luss and Anna Ewers star in the (extremely) latex-heavy calendar, which is titled Calendar Girls 2015.
The 2015 Pirelli Calendar also features its first plus-size model in Candice Huffman, a Maryland native who was tapped to star in Vogue Italia's groundbreaking 2011 Curvy issue.
"Steven chose some absolutely stunning women and made them truly beguiling," Roitfeld said. "Personally, I’ve always loved shapely models, who often turn out to be more at ease with their bodies than normal ones. That’s precisely why I like them. Beauty inhabits different worlds and different ideas of beauty."
"If you're a model and you get a phone call to be in Steven Meisel's edition of the Pirelli Calendar, you say yes," sums up casting director Jennifer Starr in a behind-the-scenes video from the shoot.
If you want to know what goes into the making of the Pirelli Calendar, check out our selects from its 50-year archive below and dive into this Dazed feature from the set of the 2014 Steven Lindberg-shot edition.
