The Face – No. 22 / July 1990 / The 3rd Summer of Love
“The Daisy Age” / Photography: Corinne Day / Styling: Melanie Ward / Make-up: Shiralee Law / Hair: Drew Jarrett
Corrine Day died last Friday, 27 August, aged 48, from brain cancer.
Working together with fashion stylist Melanie Ward, and hair stylist Drew Jarrett, Day used Kate Moss as the model in an eight-page fashion story titled “The 3rd Summer of Love”, which was published in The Face, in July 1990—the story showcased garments by Romeo Gigli, Joseph Tricot, Ralph Lauren, and a feather head-dress from the now-defunct Covent Garden boutique World.
The photographs, which include one depicting Moss topless and another in which it is implied that she is naked, are some of the first published fashion photographs of Kate Moss, who was sixteen when they were taken (since 2003, following the Sexual Offences Act, designates that those under eighteen are protected and defined as children).
In 1993, Day photographed Moss for the cover of British Vogue—a cover that has become associated with defining the ‘waif’ look that became pervasive in fashion culture, in the early 1990s.
In 2006, Day had a solo exhibition of her photographs at Gimpel fils gallery in London.
In 2007, Day was commissioned to photograph Kate Moss by the National Portrait Gallery. Discussing the shoot, Day Said, “I suggested to Kate that we have a conversation about a serious subject. The subject she chose to talk about revealed her true feelings and in turn defined her character.”
On 7 August 2009, an article on Models.com reported that Corinne Day had been diagnosed with a life threatening brain tumor.
Moss and others, raised more than £100,000 by selling photographic prints—in a campaign they titled ‘Save the Day’—in order that Day receive Insulin Potentiation Therapy Low Dose or IPTLD chemotherapy in Arizona, USA. Day returned to England where, from February 2010 until her death on 28 August 2010 from complications related to the tumor she was “gravely ill,”
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, in late August 2010, Belinda White 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.”
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