Fashion photography, Knight maintains, doesn’t aspire to record a moment — it’s about creating an aesthetic. Pressing the shutter is only a part of the process, and “manipulation” another. fact he calls himself an “image-maker” as often as he does a photographer.

Photo by Nick Knight

And here’s Knight on sizeism and ageism, fashion’s two other sorest points (fur notwithstanding). “Issues I relieved in were not being articulated in my professional work. Issues as simple as that fact that nobody was photographing women who looked like my wife”. (This is Charlotte, who Knight describes as “curvaceous” and “the most beautiful woman in the world”.) “Only people in their teens were being photographed — if you were older than 21 you didn’t have a look in. Lancôme dropped Isabella Rossellini when she turned 40: biggest mistake they ever made. All these examples were around me, and they didn’t sit well with me.”