Twitter was abuzz this weekend with news of the death of famous British photographer Corinne Day, who’s credited with launching Kate Moss‘ career on the pages of The Face in 1990. The news was posted on Elite London’s blog on Saturday.

Day had been battling a brain tumor for over a year.

However, soon after fans began sending their condolences via the Web, others started disputing the claim. And no major news outlets have been able to confirm the news.

Update: According to a source close to Day, she passed yesterday at 5pm GMT. Our thoughts are with her family and friends. Her images shaped a fashion generation.

She’s no stranger to posing nude for photoshoots, having stripped for magazines including Vogue, Interview and Love.

And it seems Kate Moss, 36, still has no qualms about showing off her figure, judging by these pictures of the British model in the 2010/11 advertising campaign for jeweller David Yurman. Kate is seen laying on her front wearing only a heavy chain necklace and bracelet in the shots taken by renowned photographer Peter Lindbergh in St Bart’s earlier this year.

In another shot, mother-of-one Kate is photographed up to her chest in the sea, with her hair slicked back, wearing a different necklace.

Kate is clearly happy with her figure, which is slightly more curvy than when she started in the modelling industry, and said recently she thought she was too thin when she first started out.

She said: ‘I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, “I don’t want to be this skinny.”

‘I was doing shows and flying economy … nobody ever fed me. Or I’d be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I’d get in, there wasn’t any room service… I didn’t eat for a long time.’

But now Moss has finally accepted her figure, despite saying she is aware many people don’t regard her as a natural beauty.

She said: ‘It sounds really corny, but I think that if you’re beautiful inside, it shows on the outside for sure.

‘You can be a pretty face, but if you’re not a nice person, it just doesn’t work. I’m not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I’m all right. If you’re a nice person, it definitely helps.’

However, Kate also revealed in a recent interview that while she is happy being photographed, she is less happy with the ‘celebrity’ tag which comes with being a model.

She said: ‘When I work with photographers I become a muse, sort of. But it’s not me. It’s this character that they make me into. I’ve no idea why people are so interested in me.

‘It makes me a bit uncomfortable talking about it, actually. I don’t like being famous, no. It encroaches on your life. A lot.

‘It’s something I’m still learning to deal with. If I can keep people interested in my work for another few years I’ll be happy.’

She has taken on and beaten younger women for two decades, but it seems supermodel Kate Moss has finally met her match – the boss’s daughter. Miss Moss is winding down her clothes-designing partnership with Topshop boss Sir Philip Green to allow the tycoon’s teenage daughter to take her place. The model will launch her 14th and final collection for the billionaire’s high street store in October, just weeks after 19-year-old Chloe Green starts training with the company.

Day has been battling a brain tumor since late last year. Vogue UK reported in February that treatment for it was unsuccessful, and that the Victoria and Albert Museum was planning a retrospective of her work.

Day, who taught herself photography, is best known for her impact on the fashion industry in the early 1990s. She photographed Kate Moss’s first cover of British Vogue, and her image are considerably more documentary and biographical than the highly produced images that other photographers created. The style eventually earned the name grunge.

Until recently, Day had been an active photographer. Her work appeared in Italian, Japanese and British Vogue and has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, the Saatchi Gallery and the Whitney Museum.

We have reached out to Day’s publicist for comment and confirmation, but we have yet to hear from her. We will update the story as more information becomes available to us.

[Via Racked]
[Image Courtesy Corinne Day]

STYLE RITE

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Ad Campaign: Isabel Marant
Season: Fall Winter 2010.11
Model: Kate Moss
Photography by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
Website: www.isabelmarant.tm.fr
Kate Moss becomes the new face of Isabel Marant in a campaign photographed by Inez & Vinoodh.

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Chances are you’ve already either ripped out Kate Moss‘ latest David Yurman campaign from a glossy or printed out our blog post detailing her enviable slicked back hair and tacked it to your inspiration board, but prepare yourself for more Moss love.

This season, the brand decided to make fans feel even closer to the campaign experience and invited street style photographer Garance Doré to the set in St. Barth’s, in order to capture the behind the scenes details from the set. And Modelinia scored two exclusive images of Kate, looking all kind of gorgeous. Take a peek at the on set experience, where legendary photographer Peter Lindbergh and crew watch Kate in her modeling glory, then review the assortment of snaps.

Make sure to check out the David Yurman Facebook page for more BTS goodies!

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VOGUE is launching a new book, The Faces of Fashion: Vogue Model.

Combining stunning imagery of each model – from Gisele to Kate Moss to Agyness to Claudia – with a detailed guide of their backgrounds and their individual contributions to the fashion industry, the book is a the ultimate A-Z catalogue of the world’s most famous muses.

Written by Vogue’s creative director Robin Derrick and former Vogue picture editor Robin Muir, The Faces of Fashion: Vogue Model will be available from October 7 for £45.

YOU SHOULD SEE: Kate Moss’ latest design obsession…

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There’s one more collaborator in the process: the person who buys and wears the jewelry. Yurman aims to make versatile pieces that men and women can decide how to wear for themselves.

“One of the elements of what we do is to be versatile,” says Yurman. “To say to ‘wear it from day to night’ is not especially versatile. But you can play with [this necklace], you can double wrap it, triple wrap it for a bracelet. Three rows on the neck, one long.”

Above in our exclusive pic, Kate seductively shows off several long, glittering necklaces. Long necklaces are a big hit with the Yurmans’ youngest collaborator, Evan Yurman. “You know what I love? A big diamond on a pendant worn very casually. Just on an old style chain and an old setting. Or, if the stone had some history to it — it was like a Maharaja jewel. To me, that would just be the ultimate sign of elegance and understated luxury.”

Perhaps that’s a hint as to what we’ll be seeing from the youngest Yurman designer in the future. Sounds exquisite!

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Beachside photoshoots are something of a mystery to us—we imagine lots of sun, surf, palms, and fruity beverages, and just a smudge of work. However, Garance Doré captured behind-the-scenes of the Peter Lindbergh-shot campaign for David Yurman fall 2010, and shows that plenty of hard work goes into making pictures that feel so damn relaxing. Kate Moss acted as the leading lady, but we know the real protagonists were the jewelry—with white diamonds and mixed metals set against blackened rhodium, the jewels were created to mimic Paris at night, and aptly named “Midnight Melange”. Kate Moss, a deserted beach, David Yurman, and midnight in Paris? It doesn’t get more romantic than that! Click through for Garance’s pic of the action that went on behind the camera in order to get the shot above.

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