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From Princess Diana to Kate Moss: Celebrity hairstylist SAM MCKNIGHT opens his photo album and reveals the secrets behind his most iconic looks
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1990 PRINCESS DIANA'S ICONIC HAIRCUT. This was the first day I met her. I styled her hair short for a Vogue shoot and she liked it, so afterwards I cut it really short. Diana was up for a change – it became emblematic. I spent seven years working with her. I went with her to India and did her hair for the famous Taj Mahal picture. And I created that slicked-back look for the CFDA Fashion Awards, which she was nervous about.
2012 AT THE LONDON OLYMPICS WITH KATE MOSS. I had to break my holiday to come back and do Kate’s hair for the closing ceremony and I was complaining about it. But it was a real pinch-me moment. Nine supermodels coming down the catwalk, people like Georgia May Jagger, David Gandy and Jourdan Dunn. It was incredible.
1959 ME AS A BOY. I grew up in a Scottish mining village and from a young age I was into fashion. There were a few Vogues in the library, and I remember seeing Helmut Newton and Norman Parkinson’s names and being mesmerised by the glamorous photographs.
1992 AN AD SHOOT WITH NAOMI CAMPBELL. I was backstage with her at this year’s DSquared2 show in Milan and I said I wanted her hair to be big, big, big, big. She said, ‘Like that Falmer jeans ad we did in the 90s?’ [pictured] I thought, ‘Wow, what an amazing memory you have.’ She gets the reference. That’s why Naomi gets the big bucks. That and she’s an extraordinary beauty.
2011 WORKING WITH LADY GAGA. We did a lot of iconic things together. This look was for a Thierry Mugler show. We worked on the Born This Way album cover and I fought through the flies in the bathroom to pin the steak to her head when she wore the meat dress to the MTV Awards. ‘Expect the unexpected’ is the motto here.
1992 MONKEYING ABOUT WITH LINDA EVANGELISTA. Linda and I were working on a campaign for a clothing brand and the chimp was an extra. I slipped into model Marcus Schenkenberg’s place and we got this shot. That was back in the day when we used to take Polaroids and mess around.
2016 ME WITH GIGI HADID. I’ve known her and her sister Bella since they were young. They are such nice girls. They’ve worked hard to fight off all that nepo-baby negativity. They’ve always been incredibly supportive, not just of me, but of my brand, too.
1994 MY SUPERMODEL GANG. This was when I launched my first product range. Patrick [Demarchelier] said, ‘Why don’t we get all the girls to the studio?’ There was lots of champagne and photos. We grew up together. I met those girls when they were gawky teenagers. I met Christy [Turlington] in 84 [when she was 15]. They didn’t start life as superstars.
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