V I N TA G E F R I E N D S H I P What do you do when one of your best friends from childhood becomes a supermodel? You tell everyone! And you celebrate not only his success, but the way he's using his own story of addiction & recovery to help others.
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by Sydney Stone
ou may recognize my friend Kevin Davis from one of his many book covers. Or you might be one of his 205,000 (and counting!) Instagram followers. Perhaps he's even one of your "book boyfriends." But over the last four decades, he's just been "Kev" to me. It's what I've called him for the entirety of our friendship, which started way back in the 1980s. Kevin and I grew up in Gadsden, Alabama, a tiny town an hour north of Birmingham. We met in the parking lot of the Gadsden Mall. Every weekend, teenagers from all the local high schools would head down to the mall after closing hours and drive around the parking lot. I'm not kidding. Driving around the mall was the only thing we had to do for entertainment in Gadsden. That was one of the main reasons we both wanted to move out. Of course, Kevin and I had no idea that our chance meeting behind the Belk department store that summer would be the foundation of a friendship that would last forever, and that it would follow us from Gadsden to Atlanta...and later me to New York and him to super-stardom. Here's how it all went down, and how we've managed to keep in touch after all these years.
Kevin wearing a t-shirt from Silber Fuchs NYC
Check out more of Kevin's book covers here