#89 – The Flaw Queen

Corinne Day (1965-2010) is dead. The Queen of Naturalism in photograph passed away last Friday 27th August after a long battle with cancer. Her style of photograph kicked off the whole grunge movement in the ’90s in a blaze of controversy.

She changed Fashion with a new approach about beauty. No make-up, natural light, girls with flaws were Corinne’s trademarks. How her muse Kate Moss could be a model at her height, no boobs and such stranger knees? But she was and the famous The Face magazine cover (July 1990) is forever.

Accusations of her promoting ‘heroine chic’ and anorexia did nothing to halt her industry appeal or her stellar career. “Photography is getting as close as you can to real life, showing us things we don’t normally see. These are people’s most intimate moments, and sometimes intimacy is sad”, she said.

“Corinne opened the door for a whole generation of photographers, designers, models and stylists who suddenly saw that the fashion industry didn’t have to be this exclusive club for the privileged and perfect. Suddenly there was another way, a place where ‘normal’ people were welcome”, as written by Belinda White on Fashion Telegraph.

“A very big source of inspiration for me is music – it brings atmospheres alive”, told Corinne. See her hole work here.

Shhh… R.I.P. Corinne.