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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Edward Helmore

‘We have to shoot in colour or they’ll kill us’: the day a young Kate Moss hit the fashion stratosphere

On the brink of great fame, Kate Moss explores midtown New York on a spring day in 1994.
On the brink of great fame, Kate Moss explores midtown New York on a spring day in 1994. Photograph: Glen Luchford/Idea

On a summer day in June 1994, Kate Moss, then just 20, and the British photographer Glen Luchford set out across New York for a reportage-fashion shoot that indelibly captured the energy and beauty of the young model, in love and on the brink of great fame, and the energy and light of a city that was similarly about to change.

Dozens of images from that shoot, which took place over a day and used more than 200 rolls of film, have now been published in Roseland, out now from Idea Books, and named after the midtown ballroom that had hosted the orchestras of jazz-age greats Louis Armstrong and Count Basie.

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