A huge player and influencer of fashion photography worldwide, Terence Donovan's photography, featuring classic shots of some of the best high fashion from the industry, is being brought together for a book to be released in only a few weeks. The only thing rivaling his eye for fashion and impeccable photos is how interesting his life was as well.

One rainy afternoon, as a star-struck young model at the very beginning of my career, portfolio in hand, I walked into Terence Donovan's small studio in Yeoman's Row, a stone's throw from Harrods.

I had tramped my way all over London, visiting photographer after photographer, ever hopeful. It was 1959. There, sitting at his desk with piles of contact sheets in front of him, was Donovan, a giant of a man with an equally giant presence.

He was a key part of that English movement in fashion photography in the 1960s and, together with Bailey and Duffy, a photographer one simply had to work with if one's career were to mean anything. He represented everything that was changing in the world of fashion; his eye was altering the way the world perceived women. Read More