Kate Moss

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Last but not least, Kate Moss... a modern day fashion icon. Known for her prominent cheek bones, party lifestyle and distinctive look, Kate has introduced items such as skinny jeans, waistcoats and shorts to many girls wardrobes...

Katherine Moss was born in London, England on 16^th January 1974. She has appeared in over 50 magazine covers, although she is a model she is also known for her relationships and party lifestyle. She is estimated to have earned £9 million in one year.

She wasn’t the smartest of pupils in school, out of eight GCSEs she achieved one C in Science and the rest were Ds, Es and Fs. In 1988, at age 14, she went on a family holiday to the Bahamas and whilst waiting for a return flight she was discovered by Sarah Doukas, founder of Storm Model Agency.

Kate is known for her waif look, which means ‘extremely thin with large bambi eyes’ other waifs include the top 1960s model Twiggy. Besides modelling, she has interests in the arts, literature and music. She was in a made-for-television comedy film, “Inferno.”

Kate is also a fashion designer, in 2007 she designed a collection of clothes exclusively for Topshop who reportedly paid her £3 million for her work. Her collection included her signature skinny jeans and one-shoulder minidresses. Her most recent work includes designing handbags for Longchamp, below you can see a short film shot especially for her collection, if you look carefully you can see how much she resembles Brigitte Bardot!

Kate Moss was engaged to Johnny Depp!

 

Moss’ relationships have been popular, she dated the actor Johnny Depp from 1994-1998. She had a daughter, Lila Grace, in September 2002 with Jefferson Hack (publisher and founding editor of Dazed & Confused magazine) but they split in 2004. Kate then began dating Babyshambles and The Libertines singer Pete Docherty in 2005-2007, their relationship gained a lot of attention from the media. She is now married to Jamie Hince, guitarist for rock band, The Kills.

As well as being mentioned in magazines for her crazy lifestyle, Kate is also featured in the fashion and beauty pages too. Kate is known for her relaxed festival style, cat eyes and messy blonde bed-head hair.

Kates style is admired by hundreds of girls, her most favoured look is a loose t-shirt and skinny jeans with boots.

 

Kate’s most admired clothing items include:

·         Skinny jeans

·         Denim cut off shorts

·         Alexander McQueen’s skull scarf

·         Over the knee boots

·         Vintage pieces

·         Waistcoats

·         Blazers

·         Fur coats

·         Plain vest tops

If you are feeling inspired by Kate's look take a look below at a few similar clothing items:

She finishes her look with smudgy black eyeliner and bed head hair, she is known for the ‘heroin chic’ look along with actress, Sienna Miller. Kate has earned many awards for her style, including the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s fashion influence award and a place on the Vanity Fair international best-dressed list.

I hope you have enjoyed reading about Kate's life & her fun, relaxed and chilled out style!