Such was the legendary status of photographer Patrick Demarchelier in fashion circles that his name was spoken in a seminal scene in the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada. When Miranda Priestley, the demanding editor in chief of a high fashion glossy magazine (allegedly based on Anna Wintour at American Vogue) despatches the first directive at her hapless assistant she asks one pointed question: “Do you have Demarchelier?”
In a career that lasted almost half a century, Demarchelier was regarded as a failsafe producer of phenomenal fashion images, his unmistakable signature on par with his contemporaries Meisel, Lindberg and Elgort.
