nss 90s: Winona forever - the story of a love that has become a legend - Winona & Johnny aka the 90s couple format

Before Kate Moss, before Vanessa Paradis and certainly before Amber Heard, there was her, Winona.

It's the 90s and Johnny Depp is not yet Jack Sparrow, nor, let alone, the man in decline who has been reduced to be in the last period. He’s beautiful, alternative, at the beginning of a promising career, star of the show 21 Jump Street and, above all, is in love.

The girl who stole his heart has alabaster skin, raspberry lips and large fawn eyes. The first time he sees her is June 16, 1989, at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City, during the premiere of Great Balls of Fire. She arrives aboard a pink Cadillac, wrapped in a white skinny minidress by Giorgio di Sant'Angelo.

It's a vision and Johnny cannot help but stare at her, kidnapped.

Her name is Winona Ryder, a very young and talented actress who is about to become the face of an entire generation.

They meet again thanks to a mutual friend at Chateau Marmont, then it's the turn of the first real appointment, at a party in the Hollywood home of the counterculture guru, Timothy Leary, the godfather of Winona. A month later the couple lives together, between hotels and apartments for rent. Five months after their meeting, the marriage proposal and the official engagement arrive.

It is the beginning of a legendary love story, made up of great declarations and romantic gestures.

"When I met Winona and we fell in love, it was absolutely like nothing before. We hung out the whole day... and night, and we've been hanging out ever since. I love her more than anything in the whole world"- explains Johnny and continues -"I’d die for her. I love her so much. I don’t know what I would do without her. I love her almost more than I love myself. There’s been nothing in my 27 years that’s comparable to the feeling I have with Winona”.

She says:

"I need him to stay with me. If it cannot be with me, I have to have some object that reminds me of it, like one of his T-shirt, necklace, bracelet or even a picture ".

Candida, long after their separation, confesses:

“When I met Johnny, I was pure virgin. He changed that. He was my first everything. My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend. My first fiancé. The first guy I had sex with. So he’ll always be in my heart”.

For his "Babydoll", as he fondly calls her (she has nicknamed him "My Tattooed Boyfriend"), Depp does not spare himself. Breakfast is prepared every day: eggs, hash browns, toast and coffee. For her eighteenth birthday, she gives her debutant pearls and a diamond watch; while away, busy on the set of "Benny and Joon", one sends two hundred colored balloons.

Many think that if Ryder and Depp were together, she would never become a "girl interrupted" and he would avoid the marriage to Amber Heard and the subsequent personal collapse.

What is certain is that they remain one of the coolest couples of all time, Hosanna from Millenials affected by nostalgia from Generation X, because, as Tavi Gevinson told Entertainment Weekly in 2014