Corinne Day 1965-2010
Her photographs defined the 90's for me. The first magazine handed down to me from my amazing godmother, a July 1990 issue of The Face. The issue featured a fifteen year old Kate moss on the cover shot by Corinne. It's pretty impossible to explain just how influential this was, both of the time and for me.
"The models were no longer perfect. They were still thin, but many of them now painfully so and they were vulnerable, conscious of themselves and their fragility, their moles and birthmarks, their strange role as models; clothes now hung off them at odd angles and their gangling, slender limbs were almost rejecting the clothes they were supposed to be promoting.
They rarely smiled and looked dazed, bored and pissed off. It was selling clothes as reality - fashion with a rough edge. Of course, in retrospect, it was a highly stylized reality, elegance slumming in a sense and as contrived as anything else that had gone on before it."
Verité.
