New fashion book revisits the 1990s through a photographer’s eyes

Pamela Hanson, one of the few women shooting for major fashion magazines during the 1990s, said she always saw the models less as objects and more as “co-conspirators”. Photo: Handout

Perhaps the strangest thing about fashion photographer Pamela Hanson’s retrospective book The 90s is how much smiling goes on inside it.

Naomi Campbell wears a blond wig and flashes her pearly whites on a plush sofa at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Charlotte Rampling smiles while smoking a cigarette in the dressing room of a Jil Sander boutique in Paris.