Kate Moss Biography

NAME: Kate Moss

OCCUPATION: Model

BIRTH DATE: January 16, 1974 (Age: 37)

PLACE OF BIRTH: London, England

ZODIAC SIGN: Capricorn

Model. Born on January 16, 1974, in London, England. With her incredibly thin, boyish body, Moss created quite a stir in the modeling world, launching what became known as the waif look. She started working young after being discovered at the age of 14 at JFK airport in New York. Moss appeared on the cover of a British magazine the next year - her first cover shot and an important career milestone for any model.

Besides being one of the world's leading models, Moss has also become famous for her tumultuous personal life. She has admitted that she began drinking and smoking marijuana at the age of twelve. She continued with her partying lifestyle as her career took off. Moss did a stint in a London clinic to fight her addiction to alcohol in 1998.

It all began with her first cover shoot for British magazine “The Face” in 1997, which evoked much public conjecture over her skinniness. Further controversy followed Moss as she posed scantily clad for Calvin Klein underwear adverts, and then posed nude for an advert for Calvin Klein perfume, ‘Obsession’. She was criticised for giving further endorsement to the controversial 1990s ‘heroin chic’ look, which many people thought dangerous and unnecessary to glamorise in the world of fashion, already notorious for its drug culture.

Besides modelling, Moss has turned her interest to the arts, literature, and music. She was in a made-for-television comedy film, “Inferno” (1992), directed by Ellen von Unwerth. She played alongside Helena Christensen, Eva Herzigova, Tyra Banks and Amber Smith in this story about an English author needing to avoid distractions in order to complete his latest work.

In 1997, “Kate: The Kate Moss Book” was published. Moss personally chose the pictures of herself that would make up this compilation, representing her career in front of the camera lens. Returning to comedy films, Moss played Maid Marion/Queen Marion in “Blackadder Back & Forth” (1999). She has made numerous appearances on television as herself, including four episodes of “French and Saunders” in 1996.

She has featured in fashion spreads in most major international fashion magazines, including Vogue (UK, French and US), The Face, Vanity Fair, W and Another Man, and she has graced the covers of these issues many times over. Moss has also worked with the fashion industry’s top photographers, including Mario Testino, Steven Klein, Juergen Teller and Mario Sorrenti.

In April 2005 make-up house Rimmel launched their new mascara, using Moss as the first face of Rimmel cosmetics. In the advert, she is clad in leather and rides a motorbike through London. In July 2005, Moss won the Fashion Designers of America Vogue/CFDA award. It is reported that the haute couture dress she wore from the Christian Dior Fall 2005 collection, to the award ceremony, inspired John Galliano to create his entire Spring 2006 ready-to-wear collection around the theme of nude and black lace.

Scandal struck on 15 September 2005, when London’s Daily Mirror ran the story with the headline “Cocaine Kate” and photographs of Moss at a Babyshambles studio recording, allegedly cutting cocaine. Doherty claimed that it was his former manager, James Mullord, who sold the photographs to the newspaper for over £150 000.