Backstage Pass - a 90s fashion photo essay

In the early 1990s, fashion shows were still pretty tough. Things weren't as tightly managed as they are these days, especially if you scratched below the surface. Jo Jones, now the Observer's fashion editor and then a student at Central Saint Martins, managed to secure access for herself and fellow student Gavin Bond to go backstage at a Vivienne Westwood show in Paris .

It was 1993 and they were there on a student trip. Somehow the ever tenacious Jones had managed to negotiate access to "all areas" through Vivienne Westwood's mother who worked within his team ille to prepare the show. For his student magazine, Jones worked on the piece, interviewing Westwood's mother, then that of Kate Moss, who...