Corinne Day was famed for being the often-controversial photographer who launched Kate Moss’s career – and the backlash against the sensationally named ‘heroin-chic’ look and ‘grunge’ trend that followed.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill: famed war leader, orator, national hero, the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States, and so revered that, when he finally retired from politics, the Queen considered creating him Duke of London.

The British Graffiti artist Banksy has been plying his trade for nearly twenty years and, during that time, has courted controversy with his contempt for the labelling of graffiti as ‘vandalism’. You either love or you hate it. We love it.

The Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni demonstrated in such compelling and original films his belief that the failure of human feelings is the cause of modern tragedy.