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"I started going through my big storage unit in New York to organize negatives and decided to work on this book, which is really a compilation of pictures I love. I kind of fell into fashion because I love photography. A lot of my best friends were models, so I was just photographing my friends. I was never obsessed with the fashion as much as I was with the girls and the spirit of the moment. I happened to work with super-talented stylists like Brana Wolf, who was really influential to me. At the beginning, I just did beauty. Brana taught me how to incorporate the fashion. She understood the clothes. We just clicked... For me, it was always about girls living in the clothes. Dressed up but just hanging around watching TV or having a drink with their girlfriends. I shot a lot in hotel rooms and cafés. It was an intimate thing. So in a way, the fashion is an accessory to the picture. I'm still doing portraits; I'm just pickier about what I do. You know, changing to digital was a struggle for me. At the time of these pictures, it was all black-and-white. There is no retouching of any of the images in the book. I had really high-quality printers and processing in Paris. Things are different now. But that's okay. You can't go backwards." —Pamela Hanson Chanel's high-low cape, trimmed with a signature ribbon bow. This month, Rizzoli drops "Pamela Hanson The 90s." Hanson first made a name for herself in that decade by snapping candid photos of her friends in the Paris fashion world, bringing her carefree aesthetic to a buttoned-up industry. Capturing and celebrating "an essence of femininity" is how the New York—based lenswoman, on the phone from London, sums up her approach. Exclusive to Bal Harbour, she shares her tear-sheet notes and memories of shooting five iconic looks, which we've paired with some of this season's freshest runway styles. BY INGRID SCHMIDT des femmes compilation of fashion because friends were my friends. as much as I moment. super-talented stylists like to me. At Brana taught me understood living in hanging around their and cafés. the fashion pickier to digital was these pictures, retouching really in Paris. okay. You Hanson Sean McGirr's floor-sweeping cape for McQueen has Victorian vibes. Zimmermann's lace cape and maxi dress ensemble is all romance.