image: corinne day for british vogue
The fashion world lost an amazing photographer on Friday with the passing of Corinne Day. Day helped to launch Kate Moss‘ career into supermodel stardom by taking raw-styled photos of the emerging beauty for The Face in 1990. Day spoke to WWD in 2006 and stated, “A lot of 15-year-old girls wouldn’t have developed a personality by then, but Kate was always a bit grown-up for her age — her personality is what made her so successful.”
Corinne succumbed to a brain tumor which was first diagnosed in 1996, and had recently returned.
Always on the forefront of fashion photography, Day again made a splash by shooting Kate Moss for British Vogue in a pair of children’s underwear in an empty apartment, effectively coining the term “heroin chic” which prevailed in the fashion world for a good part of the 1990’s.
Marc Jacobs acknowledged Day’s contributions to the fashion world, by mentioning in 2008, that her images of Moss “changed fashion. That was a moment when we looked at beauty and glamour in a different way.”
Funeral services will be held on Friday in Buckinghamshire, England. She is survived by her filmmaker husband-Mark Szaszy.
