Patrick Demarchelier didn't just transform Diana's image – he turned royalty into stars
telegraph.co.ukA post shared by Rolling Stone en Español (@rollingstonemx)The last four years of his five-decade career were clouded by allegations of sexual harassment from multiple female models, all of which he strenuously denied.
He was on a story for Australian Vogue in 2018 when he got the call from Conde Nast saying they could no longer work with him.
Unclear whether that meant he should walk off the job then and there, he decided to finish the shoot. In the golden years – and they lasted a long time – he was a canny choice to portray a rebooted Princess Diana for her first British Vogue cover in 1991.
After all, his fabulously flattering photography had helped create the phenomenon of the supermodels.“He really knew how to light,” says Lucinda Chambers, who worked many times with him during her three decades at British Vogue, including once in a remote corner of Ladakh with Cindy Crawford. “We get to the location and we’re sleeping in tents.
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