My first Kate cover – turn over to find my other favourites . . .
March 1993
THIS was Kate’s first Vogue cover. It was groundbreaking, because she looked so natural and naive, unlike the more polished supermodels such as Linda Evangelista and Cindy Crawford who had dominated previous issues.
It was part of the whole
Grunge fashion movement, and I commissioned her friend, Corinne Day, part of an exciting new wave of young British photographers, to shoot it.
Inside the magazine we also ran a fashion story, shot on a football pitch, featuring Kate and a gang of the new British waif models, including
Rosemary Ferguson and Emma Balfour. It was the dawn of a new era when London became one of the major fashion capitals.
Ironically, the top Kate is wearing was Chanel, which was a big advertiser in the magazine, unlike the many smaller British labels that were part of the movement.