Sarah Moon left occupied France for England with her Jewish family. There, she studied drawing. While working as a model under the name Marielle Hadengue from 1960 to 1966, she helped her friends build up their portfolios by acting as an impromptu photographer. It was when she met her future partner, photography publisher Robert Delpire, that she began a brilliant collaboration with Cacharel in 1967 that lasted for thirty years. Her elegant photo campaigns and advertising films inspired by the 1930s won awards in Cannes in 1979. However from 1968 she also worked as an independent photographer for several fashion designers (Sonia Rykiel, Jean Patou, Coco Chanel...
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