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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Tamsin Blanchard, compiled by Bemi Shaw

Backstage pass – a 90s fashion photo essay

When you’re smiling: Shalom Harlow in a flapper wig backstage at John Galliano spring/summer 1998.
When you’re smiling: Shalom Harlow in a flapper wig backstage at John Galliano spring/summer 1998. Photograph: © Gavin Bond. Courtesy of Hamiltons Gallery

In the early 1990s, fashion shows were still quite a rough and ready business. Things weren’t quite as closely managed as they are these days, especially if you scratched beneath the surface. Jo Jones, now the Observer’s fashion editor, then a student at Central Saint Martins, managed to get access for herself and her fellow student Gavin Bond to go backstage at a Vivienne Westwood show in Paris.

Claudia Maria Schiffer makes a quick exit
Claudia Maria Schiffer makes a quick exit Photograph: Gavin Bond
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