A handsome, six feet five inches tall, elegant writer, editor, stylist, illustrator, fashion journalist, film-maker, designer and photographer of international magazine Vanity Fair and the New Yorker recently passed away at the age of seventy-five.

We at oreime.com can not but reverence this multi-talented man who inspired many and made a difference in the fashion world through Vanity Fair magazine and The New Yorker. He was the New Yorker’s first and only fashion director.

For over fifty years, he affected the world fashion trends through write-ups, photographs and graphic designs. He was a great painter. He designed several places including an exclusive restaurant at Mayfair in England.

He was made commander of the order of the British empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth 11 in 2022.

He was a citizen of Buckinghamshire. His father was from St. Lucia and his mother was English. He was a graduate of Fine Art and Graphic Design. He won a prize while in school which brought him to New York. There, his work was published for the first time in Women’s Wear Daily. After graduation in 1969, he worked with Tina Brown at the Sunday Times in London. He left with Brown for Vanity Fair in New York in 1984. He wrote for many international magazines all over the world.

By 1988, he had ventured into photography and film making, for which he won an MTV Award for Best Breakthrough Video- “Limbo” by Brian Ferry.

The ABC JUNGLE, his first book was published in 1998. it was quite pictorial. A beautiful He said it was for adults and children. Another one SHOT IN SICILY. Another pictorial book about where he lived till he passed away. And finally ISLAND OF ETERNAL BEAUTIES which he published in 2022. This last book was like a love letter to the city he fell in love with, Taormina in Sicily.

Micheal is remembered as humorous, kind, generous and of course truly gifted.