The Mail on Sunday

January 2002

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This was intended as a rather odd combinatio­n of a patriotic gesture, as Britain sent troops into Afghanista­n, and support for our fashion industry – hence the Fashion’s Force cover line. The Mario Testino shoot was captured by art photograph­er Andreas Gursky, who made his name photograph­ing vast computer-enhanced panoramas, and was also filmed by a BBC crew for a documentar­y. It was a massive enterprise in every way. Our fashion director, Lucinda Chambers, dressed 18 British models in clothes she commission­ed specially from British designers of the day using the Union Jack print. The whole cover was a gatefold image, with others inside including Sophie Dahl, a very pregnant Jasmine Guinness and Jodie Kidd. Also there is Cecilia Chancellor, who was breastfeed­ing her newborn son. Kate, wearing a dress by Hussein Chalayan, stands between her friend Rosemary Ferguson and Naomi Campbell, in a Julian Macdonald bikini, who had arrived, predictabl­y, three hours late. It was Kate’s birthday and the shoot ended with a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday, cake and champagne.

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