Melanie Ward, the influential stylist who shaped the look of a generation alongside designer Helmut Lang and photographers including Corinne Day, David Sims, and Inez and Vinoodh, has died. The news was announced on her Instagram account, which explained that the cause was cancer, yesterday afternoon, and soon the comments started filling up with tributes. “The ’90s didn’t start until Melanie went to Camber Sands with Kate Moss and Corinne Day and styled that Face cover,” Sarah Mower wrote. And “had she not brought John Lewis boy’s school uniform trousers to Helmut Lang and told him to use them as his suit cut, what would we have worn all that decade?”

The thousands of condolences highlighted not just Ward’s visionary talent, but also her sensitivity and generosity, qualities, it was ofte

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