Kate Moss

Kate Moss

Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is a British model.[7] Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her to fashion icon status. She is known for her waifish figure, and role in size zero fashion. Moss has had her own clothing range, has been involved in musical projects, and is also a contributing fashion editor for British Vogue. In 2012, she came second on the Forbes top-earning models list, with estimated earnings of $9.2 million in one year.[8] The accolades she has received for modelling include the 2013 British Fashion Awards acknowledging her contribution to fashion over 25 years, while Time named her one of the world's 100 most influential people in 2007.

A subject of media scrutiny due to her partying lifestyle, Moss was involved in a drug use scandal in September 2005, which led to her being dropped from fashion campaigns.[10] She was cleared of charges and soon resumed modelling. She has inspired cultural depictions including a £1.5m ($2.8m) 18 carat gold statue of her, sculpted in 2008 for a British Museum exhibition. More Information More Information More Information More Information More Information More

Early life

Katherine Ann Moss was born on 16 January 1974[12] in Croydon, Greater London,[13] the daughter of Linda Rosina Moss (née Shepherd), a barmaid, and Peter Edward Moss, an airline employee, and raised in the Addiscombe and Sanderstead areas of the borough.[14] She has a younger brother, Nick, and a half-sister named Lottie (Charlotte).[15][16] Moss's parents divorced when she was 13. She attended Ridgeway Primary School and Riddlesdown High School (now Riddlesdown Collegiate) in Purley. She worked several local retail jobs in her early teens.  Information More Information More Information More Information More Information More

Career

Beginnings and "heroin chic" fashion

Moss was recruited as a model in 1988 at age 14 by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Management, at JFK Airport in New York,[18] after a holiday in The Bahamas. Corinne Day shot black-and-white photographs of her, styled by Melanie Ward, for The Face when she was 16, in a shoot titled "The 3rd Summer of Love". Moss was presented as a young unknown, and Day described the pictures as "dirty realism" or "grunge".   Information More Information More Information More Information More Information More

Moss then featured in the Levi's campaign 'Levi's for Girls',[20] with great success, set up by The Design Corporation and again shot by Corinne Day. A further shoot followed for The Face, by Tony Briggs, entitled "Haute Coiffure",[21] Moss went on to become the "anti-supermodel" of the 1990s in contrast to the models of the moment,[22] such as Cindy Crawford, Elle Macpherson, Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell, who were known[22] for curvaceous and tall figures. Information More Information More Information More Information More Information More

Moss featured in the fashion look heroin chic in 1996[23] (which prompted speculation over her weight) with a campaign for Calvin Klein. Then-US President Bill Clinton spoke out against the trend.[24] Moss said, "It was just the time. It was a swing from more buxom girls like Cindy Crawford and people were shocked to see what they called a 'waif'. What can you say? How many times can you say 'I'm not anorexic'?

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