Chris Moore honoured at British Fashion Awards 2014

The British Fashion Council has announced that Chris Moore will receive the Special Recognition Award at the 2014 British Fashion Awards. Chris Moore began his career at the age of 19 as an in-house studio assistant at Vogue Studios after having completed a two year apprenticeship in the photographic department of a London print house. Moore assisted photographers including Cecil Beaton, Henry Clarke and Clifford Coffin. In 1953, after two years at the studio, Moore joined Camera Press as the agency’s main lifestyle and fashion photographer. In 1957 Moore began his freelance career and over the next ten years worked with clients including The Guardian and the Express as well as covering Paris Haute Couture using in-house models for the editorials. It was in the early 1970s that Moore became a regular presence on the catwalk circuits; the format having developed into a forum for trade and press. In 1981, Moore moved next door to The Guardian in Clerkenwell, an area which was also home to media titles including The Sunday Times, W Magazine, Observer, The Face and Arena all of which were already or became his clients. In 1999 Moore set up Catwalking.com the UK’s first online site dedicated to catwalk imagery. Featuring collections from fashion designers across the world, Catwalking.com very quickly became one of the industry’s most useful tools for researchers, designers, press, buyers, stylists, photographers, casting agents and producers. A curated selection of his work is currently on display at the Duke Street Emporium in London until the end of the year.