The English fashion photographer Corinne Day passed away this weekend, following a long fight with brain cancer. Day’s stripped-down, de-glossed aesthetic was a breath of fresh air when she rose to prominence in the early nineties, coming on the heels of the ultra-stylized shoots of the 1980’s. Today, she’s most famous for one such pared-down editorial that ran in Britain’s The Face in July of 1990—one that launched the career of her friend, a then-unknown 16-year-old named Kate Moss.

Blogs on togs [Guardian UK]
The psychology---yes, really---behind the 'Today I'm Wearing'-type blogs: "When processing an image of a famous person endorsing a product, there's a burst of activity in the medial orbitofrontal cortex. So if you look at a picture of Kate Moss in hotpants, this neural response suggests that you're accessing all the positive associations you have about Moss and transferring them to her shorts"