David LaChapelle: 'Fashion, beauty and glamour are the mark of civilisation'

For years David LaChapelle was the go-to photographer for the world's biggest stars. But in 2006 he ditched fashion for fine art. As an exhibition of his work opens in London, he talks to Elizabeth Day about death, divas and decadenceDavid LaChapelle is running late. Though the term "running" doesn't quite describe it. "He's sleeping," says one of LaChapelle's assistants, peering at me languidly through those ironic-retro spectacles that seem to be de rigueur for arty types. "People are working ...

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