“I contemplated what two cultural titans might have talked about,” he explains of what drew him to the premise,”and what they discovered so intriguing and recognisable in one another”. He provides that the setting of ’00s London, which is evoked in montages of vogue reveals, backstage events and paparazzi footage from the time, additionally attracted him to this chapter in Moss’s life: “On the time of the portray, London was a spot fizzling with creativity, hedonism and a way of togetherness.” The timeline additionally jumps ahead to 2004, to permit the movie to incorporate scenes of Moss’s legendary “The Lovely and the Damned” thirtieth celebration, impressed by F Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel – a bash that British Vogue referred to as “a lesson in vogue debauchery”.
