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Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is an English model. Arriving towards 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 Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer. In 1968, he launched the company that later became Calvin Klein. In addition to clothing, he has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewellery. ...
brought her to fashion icon status. She is known for her waifish figure, and role in
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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. The accolades she has received for modelling include the 2013 British Fashion Awards acknowledging her contribution to fashion over 25 years, while ''
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'' 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. 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, by
Marc Quinn Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, and painting. Quinn explores "what it is to be human in the world today" through subjects including the body, genetics, ident ...
, sculpted in 2008 for a
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exhibition.


Early life

Kate Moss was born on 16 January 1974 in
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,
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, the daughter of Linda Rosina Moss (''née'' Shepherd), a barmaid, and Peter Edward Moss, an airline employee, and raised in the Addiscombe and
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areas of the borough. She has a younger brother, Nick, and a half-sister named Lottie (Charlotte). 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.


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, after a holiday in
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. 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 "
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". Moss then featured in the Levi's campaign 'Levi's for Girls', 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", Moss went on to become the "anti-supermodel" of the 1990s in contrast to the models of the moment, such as Cindy Crawford,
Elle Macpherson Eleanor Nancy Macpherson ( ; ; born ) is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host, and actress. She is known for her record five cover appearances for the ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue'' beginning in the 1980s, leading to her ...
,
Claudia Schiffer Claudia Maria Schiffer, Lady Vaughn (; born 25 August 1970) is a German model and actress. She rose to fame in the 1990s as one of the world's most successful models, attaining supermodel status. Born in Rheinberg, Germany, she initially asp ...
and
Naomi Campbell Naomi Elaine Campbell (born 22 May 1970) is a British supermodel. Beginning her career at the age of eight, Campbell was one of six models of her generation declared supermodels by the fashion industry and the international press. She was th ...
, who were known for curvaceous and tall figures. Moss featured in the fashion look heroin chic in 1996 (which prompted speculation over her weight) with a campaign for
Calvin Klein Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer. In 1968, he launched the company that later became Calvin Klein. In addition to clothing, he has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewellery. ...
. Then-US President
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spoke out against the trend. 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'?"


Drug use

upMoss in 2005 On 20 September 2005, the Swedish fashion retailer H&M dropped her from its campaign of autumn clothes designed by Stella McCartney after pictures were published of Moss using
cocaine Cocaine is a tropane alkaloid and central nervous system stimulant, derived primarily from the leaves of two South American coca plants, ''Erythroxylum coca'' and ''Erythroxylum novogranatense, E. novogranatense'', which are cultivated a ...
. The contract was reportedly worth £4 million a year. A day later,
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said it would not renew its contract with Moss, which was to expire that October, although its decision had nothing to do with the drug scandal. Burberry dropped Moss's campaign with them. Moss apologised, though stopped short of admitting drug use. In 2022, she commented "everybody I knew took drugs". Moss appeared in ad campaigns for
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. She was on the cover of the November 2005 '' W'' and also inside in a multi-page fashion shoot. She was defended by designer
Alexander McQueen Lee Alexander McQueen (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He founded his own Alexander McQueen (brand), Alexander McQueen label in 1992 and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. His ac ...
, who, during his walk-out after a fashion show, wore a T-shirt saying "We love you Kate". In March 2006, she appeared in the finale of his show '' The Widows of Culloden'', as a life-sized illusion projected into a glass pyramid. Artist Stella Vine also supported Moss, and paintings by Vine, painted during the scandal, were exhibited and reproduced in the press. On 5 January 2006, the London Metropolitan Police asked Moss to return from the US to Britain to answer questions about the September 2005
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scandal. On 16 June 2006, British police dropped the charges for lack of evidence. Ultimately, Moss was cleared of all charges and resumed her modelling career. In 2015 Moss was escorted off an
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flight by police after she became disruptive.


Later work

Moss has been featured in ad campaigns with
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,
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, Balmain,
Versace Gianni Versace S.r.l. (), usually referred to as Versace ( ), is an Italian luxury elite fashion company founded by Gianni Versace in 1978. The company produces Italian-made ready-to-wear and accessories, as well as '' haute couture'' under it ...
,
Balenciaga Balenciaga SA ( , , ) is a Spanish Basque luxury fashion house currently headquartered in Paris. It designs, manufactures and markets ready-to-wear footwear, handbags, and accessories, and licenses its name and branding to the American cosmeti ...
,
Burberry Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house established in 1856 by Thomas Burberry and headquartered in London, England. It designs and distributes ready to wear, including trench coats, leather accessories, and footwear. It is l ...
,
Stuart Weitzman Stuart A. Weitzman (born July 1941) is an American shoe designer, philatelist, and founder of the shoe company Stuart Weitzman. Weitzman has designed footwear for Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Career In the late 1950s, Weitzman's father, Seymour ...
, Rag & Bone, Alexander Wang, David Yurman, Givenchy, Roberto Cavalli, Kerastase, Isabel Marant, Yves Saint Laurent,
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,
Gucci Guccio Gucci S.p.A., doing business as Gucci ( , ), is an Italian Luxury goods, luxury fashion house based in Florence. Its product lines include handbags, ready-to-wear, footwear, accessories, and home decoration; and it licenses its name and ...
,
Dolce & Gabbana Dolce & Gabbana (), also known by initials D&G, is an Italian Luxury goods, luxury fashion house founded in 1985 in Legnano by Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. The house specializes in ready-to-wear, handbags, accessories, ...
,
Calvin Klein Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer. In 1968, he launched the company that later became Calvin Klein. In addition to clothing, he has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewellery. ...
,
Alexander McQueen Lee Alexander McQueen (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He founded his own Alexander McQueen (brand), Alexander McQueen label in 1992 and was chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001. His ac ...
,
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, Rimmel, and Bulgari. She has been on the cover and in fashion spreads for most magazines including UK, US, and French '' Vogue'' (as well as other international versions of ''Vogue''), '' Another Man'', ''
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'', '' Vanity Fair'', '' the Face'', and '' W''. She has been on the cover of British ''Vogue'' 30 times, shot the inaugural covers for both Russian ''Vogue'' with Amber Valletta and Japanese ''Vogue'', in addition to dozens of other international ''Vogue'' covers. Moss has been on the cover of 17 issues of ''W'', including one with nine different covers that featured her. ''W'' named Moss its
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(September 2003 issue). Moss has also featured on the inaugural covers of '' Numéro'', ''Numéro'' Tokyo and Spanish '' L'Officiel''. She has worked extensively with photographers such as
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, Mario Sorrenti, Steven Klein, Juergen Teller,
Steven Meisel Steven Meisel (born June 5, 1954) is an American fashion photographer, who obtained popularity and critical acclaim with his work in '' Vogue'' and '' Vogue Italia'' as well as his photographs of friend Madonna in her 1992 book, '' Sex''. He is ...
and
Peter Lindbergh Peter Lindbergh (born Peter Brodbeck; 23 November 1944 – 3 September 2019) was a German fashion photographer and film director. He had studied arts in Berlin and Krefeld, and exhibited his works before graduation. In 1971, he turned to phot ...
, and won the ''Vogue''/CFDA award from the Fashion Designers of America in July 2005 as Fashion Inspiration. April 2005 saw the launch of a Rimmel London mascara TV ad featuring leather-clad Moss motorcycling through London to the rock song "Another Cold Beer" by Steven Crayn. Twelve months after her cocaine scandal, Moss signed 18 contracts for autumn-winter 2006 including Rimmel,
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,
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, Calvin Klein and
Burberry Burberry Group plc is a British luxury fashion house established in 1856 by Thomas Burberry and headquartered in London, England. It designs and distributes ready to wear, including trench coats, leather accessories, and footwear. It is l ...
. Moss designed a collection, with Katy England, for Topshop. Moss launched a
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and body lotion range bearing her name in association with Coty in 2007. In November 2006, Moss was model of the year at the British Fashion Awards, the top accolade in British fashion, but the award stirred fresh controversy. On 1 May 2007, clothes designed by Moss for Topshop were launched in the chain's 225 UK stores. A Moss "countdown to launch" board filled a window of the company's
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store and on 30 April Moss launched the clothing there, briefly appearing in the window modelling a red dress from the collection just before the shop opened. Topshop reportedly paid Moss £3 million. The 50 designs included clothes, bags, shoes and belts, prices from £12 for a vest top to £150 for a cropped leather jacket. Clothes included skinny jeans, one-shoulder minidresses and T-shirts with ''K'' woven into the design. In a collaboration with Coty, Moss has released four fragrances. In early 2010, she designed handbags for Longchamp. In 2012, Moss modelled for the spring-summer collection for Supreme. Moss has represented
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since 2011. In November 2012, Australian model Miranda Kerr replaced Moss for spring/summer 2013. In January 2012, having seen Dutch illusionist Hans Klok on the BBC's ''
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'', Moss recommended Stella McCartney book him for
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the following month.Interview with Hans Klok, ''LIVE with Gabby'', Channel 5, 22 March 2012. It was planned that Moss, a magic fan, would be Klok's assistant, and she rehearsed three illusions, a levitation, a sawing in half and a
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illusion. However, she dropped out with temporary paralysis of her right arm due to a trapped nerve, and her place was taken by
Alexa Chung Alexa Chung (born 5 November 1983) is an English model and television personality. Chung pursued a modelling career as a teenager after being scouted by a modelling agency at the Reading Festival. She has walked for brands such as Vivienne Westw ...
. Also in 2012, Moss appeared in the video of
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's ''White Light'', inspired by his
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. Moss performed with
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in the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games on 12 August 2012. Moss posed nude for the 60th-anniversary issue of ''
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'' in December 2013. That same month, she received a Special Recognition award at the British Fashion Awards to acknowledge her contribution to fashion during her 25-year career. At the 2014 Brit Awards in February, Moss collected
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's Brit Award for Best British Male, while wearing a one-piece printed "woodland creatures" costume, as worn originally by Bowie. On 30 April 2014, Moss's second collection for Topshop was unveiled. Her first collection with Topshop resulted in a long-lasting relationship with the brand. In September 2016, Moss founded Kate Moss Agency (KMA). Her clients include
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, Jordan Barrett and Esmé Creed-Miles.


Public image

Moss was voted 9th of ''
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'' "50 Sexiest Women of 1999" and 22nd in '' FHM''s " 100 Sexiest Women of 1995". ''
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'' named her sexiest woman in its 150th issue. She was on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American '' Vogue'' as one of the "Modern Muses". In March 2007, Moss won the ''Sexiest Woman'' NME Award. In 2012 she was included on MODELS.com's 'The Supers' list. While not officially confirmed by either,
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was speculated to have written the popular Oasis single " Sunday Morning Call" about her. The song reached number 4 in the UK and number 3 in
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. Moss was the subject of an expressionist nude painting by artist
Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. His early career as a painter was inf ...
, who painted her in 2002 while she was pregnant. The work sold at
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in 2005 for £3.93 million. In 2007,
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created a portrait of her, translating
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s of Moss into Jacquard tapestry. In October 2010, she appeared on the cover of
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's album '' Olympia''. The
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maintains seven portraits of Moss among its collections, shot by photographers including
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, Corinne Day and Sølve Sundsbø. A £1.5m ($2.8m) 18 carat gold statue of Moss in 2008 was part of a
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exhibition. Entitled ''Siren'', the hollow statue was made by
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, who described Moss as "the ideal beauty of the moment". The statue is said to be the largest gold statue to be created since the era of
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. Quinn had previously made a painted-bronze, life-size sculpture of Moss in a contorted yoga pose, titled ''
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''. The cello rock group Rasputina had a song entitled "Kate Moss" on their 1996 album '' Thanks for the Ether''. Moss has earned awards for style, including the Council of Fashion Designers of America's fashion influence award and a place on the '' Vanity Fair'' international best-dressed list. In the early part of the 21st century, she was, together with actress Sienna Miller, one of the main proponents of
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. She appeared on the cover of ''Vanity Fair''s September 2006 style issue. In recent years, she has popularised denim cutoff shorts, Ugg boots and the
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handbag. In 2008, Moss was added to
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's 'Worst-Dressed' Celebrities of 2008' because of her frequent use of fur. In 2012, Moss was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' ''
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'' album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires. In 2013, the Belgian pop singer Stromae wrote Kate Moss into the lyrics of the song " Tous les mêmes", singing "il n'y a que Kate Moss qui est éternelle", translating into English as, "there's only Kate Moss who is eternal". Moss was interviewed by ''
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'' in 2009 and was quoted saying the phrase " Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels", which she described as a "
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". She was heavily criticised for the phrase, being "accused of encouraging eating disorders". Moss later regretted saying it.


Other ventures

Moss appeared on
Oasis In ecology, an oasis (; : oases ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environmentDon't Go Away" (1998) and " Fade Away" (1994), and on the '' Be Here Now'' album (1997), playing tambourine,
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playing a guitar. She has appeared in music videos such as " Kowalski" by
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, "
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" by
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, "
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" by
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, "Sex with Strangers" by
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, "Love Don't Bother Me" by Stage Dolls, " Delia's Gone" and " God's Gonna Cut You Down" by
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, and " Queenie Eye" by
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. She has also provided vocals for songs by Primal Scream (the 2003 version of " Some Velvet Morning"), Babyshambles ("La Belle et la Bête") and
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("You're a Dirty Robot"). Prior to breaking up with
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, Moss co-wrote four songs on Babyshambles' second album '' Shotter's Nation''—" You Talk", "French Dog Blues", "Baddie's Boogie", and "Deft Left Hand". In 1999, Moss played a non musical role in the British screen comedy '' Blackadder: Back & Forth'', appearing both as Maid Marian and as a fictional Queen of England. Director and writer
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said in the "making of" video that they wanted "the best looking woman in England" to play the role. In 2014, she made an acting cameo as herself in '' The Boy in the Dress''. Moss has put her name to four perfume lines. Her first one, the original, is named "Kate Moss". Other perfumes include Vintage Muse, Lila Belle and Love Blossoms. A planned biopic film by James Lucas titled "Moss and Freud" about the creation of Freud's painting of Moss was announced in 2022. The film will feature Ellie Bamber as Kate Moss and
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as Lucian Freud.


Philanthropy

Moss supported War Child. She also designed a charm in a necklace for Wallis in 2007 in aid of
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and said "I am happy to give my support to help fund crucial research, as so many lives are affected by this terrible disease." She has also helped to launch the SamandRuby charity in March 2006. The charity was started to provide funding for the education and shelter of Thai children. The SamandRuby organisation is named after a friend of Moss's, Samantha Archer Fayet, and her 6-month-old daughter Ruby Rose who were killed by the
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while visiting
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. Moss also supports the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the Hoping Foundation, the Lucie Blackman Trust,
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,
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and Homes of Hope. On 22 November 2006, Moss recorded an appearance in a '' Little Britain'' sketch for Comic Relief at the
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as a character called Katie Pollard, sister of Vicky Pollard played by
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. Moss made a short film with Misery Bear for the March 2011
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event entitled "Misery Bear's Comic Relief Starring Kate Moss". In November 2014, Moss designed a
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statue, one of fifty created by various celebrities which were located around London prior to the release of the film ''
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'', with the statues auctioned to raise funds for the
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(NSPCC).


Personal life

Moss was in a relationship with actor
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between 1994 and 1998. She has a daughter, Lila Moss (born Lila Grace Moss Hack, and who is also a model),Tennant, Laura
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born in September 2002, with '' Dazed & Confused'' editor
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, with whom she was in a relationship for a number of years in the early 2000s. She is godmother to Sadie Frost and
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's daughter Iris Law. Moss had a relationship with Libertines member
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, first meeting him at her 31st birthday party in January 2005. On 11 April 2007, Doherty announced Moss as his fiancée during one of his concerts in London, at which Moss also performed. In July 2007, Moss and Doherty split. Moss married Jamie Hince, guitarist of
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, on 1 July 2011 at St Peter's Church, Southrop, Gloucestershire; she wore a dress by
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. Moss and Hince split in 2015 and settled their divorce out of court in 2016. She has since been in a relationship with British photographer Count Nikolai von Bismarck of the German aristocratic family. In 2011, Moss bought 3, The Grove, Highgate, as her London home, selling it in 2022 to relocate to the
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. According to ''Forbes'', her 2004–2005 earnings were $5 million and her 2005–2006 earnings were $8 million. In 2007, with estimated earnings of $9 million, ''
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'' magazine named her second on the list of the World's 15 top-earning models list. She made her first appearance in the British women's '' Sunday Times Rich List'' in 2007, where she was estimated to be worth £45 million. She ranked as the 99th richest woman in Britain. In the 2009 Rich List, she was ranked as the 1,348th richest person in the UK, with a net worth of £40 million. Moss is sober.


Filmography


Biographic publications

In 2012, Rizzoli Publications released, ''Kate: The Kate Moss Book.'' written by Moss in collaboration with creative director Jefferson Hack, Fabien Baron, and Jess Hallett. The book is a personal retrospective of her career, tracing her evolution from "new girl with potential" to one of the most iconic models of all time. ''Kate: The Kate Moss Book'' includes photography by Arthur Elgort, Corinne Day, Craig McDean, David Sims, Hedi Slimane, Inez & Vinoodh, Juergen Teller, Mario Sorrenti, Mario Testino, Mert & Marcus, Nick Knight, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Roxanne Lowit, Steven Klein, Terry Richardson and others.


References


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External links

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