Lifestyle | Fashion On a rainy Tuesday, as guests recovered from the antics of a British bank holiday, the great and good of the Nineties fashion congregated at 180 the Strand for the opening night of a new exhibition, ‘Back in the Dazed’ by Rankin . It pays tribute to the decade-long relationship between Rankin , the esteemed photographer , and Dazed magazine , which he co-founded with Jefferson Hack in 1992. The show traces how Rankin’s work for Dazed helped shape fashion and culture between 1991 and 2001, highlights including Robbie Williams’ face printed on a pair of knickers and Kate Moss rocking crop tops.
Rankin told The Standard the favourite decade of his photography is “mainly the Nineties. The reason I love it so much is because it symbolises me growing up, and in this show you can see a photographer at the beginning of his career and by the end of the decade I was sort of becoming quite good at it.” A host of his muses and co-creators showed their support by attending the opening, including Hack, Hack’s daughter with Kate Moss , Lila, model Jodie Kidd and Perfect Magazine founder and former Dazed fashion editor Katie Grand.
When asked to pick a favourite shot, Grand recoiled as if picking a favourite child. She settled on a picture of Moss, a paint-sprayed vest, which is the hero image for the exhibition’s promotion. “It was such an easy shoot, I just bought a bunch of white things to destroy and we just spray painted everything.
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