![]() ![]() Richardson felt like an exciting person to work with. Photograph: Schildhorn/BFA/REX/Shutterstock Richardson with the fashion designer Stella McCartney in New York in June 2017. The truth of that tale has not been proven, but I think the men on the staff wanted it to be true because it brightened his aura of interesting glamour. ![]() There was gossip about his shoots, but mostly concerning celebrities I recall stylists recounting rumours of a bisexual orgy with supermodels in his New York studio, and jokingly referring to his pictures of this carry on as “Terry’s pension”. I met him three times, all before the first harrassment allegation against him, in 2001 and, so far as I’m aware, before he started publishing photographs of himself having sex with models. Some of the less obvious reasons for the fashion industry’s delayed reaction to the allegations might be buried in that period. I had been well placed to watch the phenomenon develop, having in the mid-90s edited the Face magazine, which ran some of his early pictures. In 2000 I was interviewing him for a long story about pornography’s influence on fashion for the Daily Telegraph. Curators at fine art galleries, broadsheet newspaper editors and highbrow book publishers all nodded along sagely. ![]() And yet his proselytising was once taken seriously, and not only by the fashion industry. ![]()
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