Who is Chris Moore?
Chris Moore grew during the economic depression of the thirties. He moved from Newcastle to England. After the war broke out he ended up moving from schools five times, most of the time without his parents.
In those difficult times, his father arranged his first job. Jobs on the printing industry were growing, because they were coveted and well paid. Moore was sent to the photography department. He started his career as a photographer´s assistant at Vogue´s in-house studio on Shoe Lane with twenty years of age. He worked alongside Cecil Beaton, Hendry Clark and Clifford Coffin, among others. Later, Moore was represented by Camera Press Agency, but he has worked independently ever since.
His first wife, the fashion journalist Jackie Moore encouraged him to pursue couture-show photography in Paris. Chris travelled for the first time to Paris for Haute Couture for the first time in 1967. He grow his own business: his fashion clients were newspapers and magazines interested in covering the new season of the fashion designers. In that time, the emerging fashion industry was discrete about the use of the images: “At first photographers were not allowed to photograph the presentation, even journalists were thrown out if caught sketching designs, so paranoid were the couture houses of being plagiarised.” added Moore.
On the seventies, the ready-to-wear brands made a push to attract buyers through organized trade weeks and the catwalk circuits were born. These shows expanded across the globe, and Moore moved along the world to cover the activities.
He became a catwalk photographer, around the same time as another catchy phrase “the supermodel”, in the early nineties.
Chris Moore launched his site catwalking.com on 2000, where he showcased all his photographs. This webpage become a resource for the fashion and the journalism industries.