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Catwalking: 40 years of London fashion week – in pictures

We take a look back at London fashion week though the lens of legendary photographer Chris Moore

As fashion week begins, Mr Moore, who turns 90 this year, won’t be squashed into the photographers’ pen at the end of the runway, but he will probably feel the twitch of his shutter finger as the season’s shows get under way. Covid was the natural opportunity for Moore to hang up his camera bag, though he still continued with some longstanding clients, including CSM degree shows, Simone Rocha and Christopher Kane, until last year. In October 1984, there were 24 catwalk shows over three days, with designers including Betty Jackson, Jasper Conran, Jean Muir, Vivienne Westwood, Bruce Oldfield (who opened his own shop that year) and the new kids just starting out – Bodymap and Richmond Cornejo.

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