Corinne Day

Nov 18, 2023 | inkl.com | Willy Maywald |Fergus Greer |Guy Bourdin |Corinne Day

Katharine Hamnett at Downing Street, wearing her “58% DON’T WANT PERSHING” T-shirt – against the proliferation of US nuclear missiles in Europe – is made all the more delicious by the detail that Margaret Thatcher wears a polka-dot pussy-bow blouse, a perfectly matched duel of 80s power dressing. Other times, clothes barely figure. In her first shoot for the Face in July 1990, Kate Moss turned the tables on the ostentatious wealth of the 80s in an instant.