I took this photograph of my friend Lady Rosie West in April 2025, at her Shades of Sweetness exhibition at studio1.1 in Redchurch Street, East London. I could not have known then that it would be Rosie’s final exhibition, or that this photograph would come to mean quite so much to me.

There are those who dress for the weather, and then there are those who dress as if their life depends on it. Enter Maur Valance—a true icon of London’s alternative nightlife and a definitive pioneer of the 1980s New Romantic movement. I managed to capture this striking portrait during my encounter with the Spitalfields Colour…