Katherine Ann Moss born 16 January is an English model. 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. A subject of media scrutiny due to her partying lifestyle, Moss was involved in a drug use scandal in September , which led to her being dropped from fashion campaigns.
She worked several local retail jobs in her early teens. Moss was presented as a young unknown, and Day described the pictures as "dirty realism" or " grunge ". Moss then featured in the Levi's campaign 'Levi's for Girls', [ 19 ] 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", [ 20 ] Moss went on to become the "anti-supermodel" of the s in contrast to the models of the moment, [ 21 ] such as Cindy Crawford , Elle Macpherson , Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell , who were known [ 21 ] for curvaceous and tall figures.
Moss featured in the fashion look heroin chic in [ 22 ] which prompted speculation over her weight with a campaign for Calvin Klein. 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 '? Burberry dropped Moss's campaign with them. Moss appeared in ad campaigns for Dior. She was defended by designer Alexander McQueen , who, during his walk-out after a fashion show, wore a T-shirt saying "We love you Kate". 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 muse September issue. Twelve months after her cocaine scandal, Moss signed 18 contracts for autumn-winter including Rimmel, Agent Provocateur , Virgin Mobile , Calvin Klein and Burberry.
