See the images that take us into the unseen corners of the photographer's storied archives
In a fashion landscape where lightning-quick turnaround – of everything from product to designers’ tenures – has become the order of the day, there’s a seductive power to longevity., the 83-year-old veteran British photographer, has been photographing the international catwalks longer than anybody else. He’s also outlasted most designers, bar Karl Lagerfeld .
Moore’s style is extraordinary because it combines the refined eye of a fashion photographer with the opportunism of a photo-journalist – capturing specific moments, but with an aesthetic consideration hitherto missing.
Alexander McQueen, Spring/Summer 2001, London. “There was the McQueen show where the glass box exploded, and all the moths came out. Lee told me about that and we had a special camera set up that captured the whole thing in sequence.
Moore smiled wryly as he recalled this. It’s no easier these days – he recalls being turfed out of shows by obsequious PRs in the 1980s – and allows that certain shows are still difficult to infiltrate, even legitimately. And yet he still shows no sign of retiring. “It gets in your blood,” he once told me, as this book was being pulled together. “Fashion is fascinating.
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