ELLY Marcie Hunt, British Vogue, 1975- Sryled by Grace Coddington. This Colour Promotion was green! We shot with a green racing plane at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Marcie Hunt posing just behind the propeller, which was running at full throttle. None of us thought much of it. Well, maybe Marcie did but, ever the pro, she just did it. Now, it would be some Photoshop strung together and looking like cheap CGI. Then, anything went. It was what made everything alive and spontaneous. What gave images the spark. I digress ... We had a few days in the studio, green everywhere. This was shot at Vogue studios. Grace had sourced a green baseball cap, a green corduroy shirt and... a slab of green jelly. To be done as a mid-length beauty shot. We began and it just didn't work. It looked rubbish. Or not even that. Then someone... it could have been the ever-brilliant Barbara Daly who was doing the make-up, or it could have been Grace, or it could have been me ... suggested we try a close-up. Why not! All change as in I went. Marcie's mouth, her teeth, the make-up and the green jelly just sang out. It might be used or it might not. It certainly Wasn't going to be a cover image. We all thought nothing more about it ... Until a week or so later when Grace called me and told me that Terry Jones had put it on a mock-up cover and it looked quite awesome. Whooah! Finally, it was agreed. Editor Beatrix Miller gave it her absolute approval. We were in business. But then, two weeks before the issue was due to run, Daniel Salem, one of the directors, tried to have it pulled. Nothing on it said it was a cover. Never have food. Never green and never a close-up. We had them all. But it was too late and it turned out to be one of the most memorable and recognised covers of all time. Power to you Terry Jones - and to you Miss Miller" Willie Christie