Nobody has symbolised the predominant narrative shift in pop culture over the last four decades, from fantasy/exterior to reality/interior, with quite the potency of George Michael. It’s amazing how evocative that song is for me.' Now it feels huge, but at the time it didn’t. They were all that played that summer, everywhere you went. But his songs were always playing in the photo studios at shoots. 'I was quite into punk rock, so it was a bit of a leap.
So everything else came from my cupboard.' While an admirer of his work – genuinely: who wasn’t? – Camilla says she was not specifically a fan of George’s until that day. 'They had to be a very specific linen count,' Camilla recalls, 'so that they could let the light through.' The model’s perfect silhouette needed capturing completely. Nickerson received specific instructions about sheets the director wanted to drape over Christy Turlington. Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz and Cindy Crawford were charged with lip-syncing the song. At Michael’s behest, Fincher borrowed the casting captured by photographer Peter Lindbergh on his iconic supermodels Vogue cover. In the video, as high a benchmark for the marriage of fashion and pop music as any early Roxy Music album jacket, George divested the power of his songwriting to five supermodels.
