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HOW MELANIE WARD RESTYLED FASHION
Harper's BAZAAR - US
|December 2025 / January 2026
FOR MELANIE WARD, fashion was never about fantasy or escape but a way to live freely and fully in the moment. The London-born stylist, who passed away in October, helped reshape fashion—and Harper's Bazaar—in the 1990s and 2000s with her modernist eye and collaborations with Helmut Lang and Calvin Klein.
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Working alongside photographers such as Corinne Day, Nick Knight, and David Sims, as well as a rising generation of models led by a young Kate Moss, Ward was part of a wave of creative talent surging out of the U.K. This was a time when the British interpretation of “grunge” became shorthand for authenticity, rebell
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