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July 15, 2026
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Kate Moss wearing sunglasses in a close-up portrait in 2014

Kate Moss in a 2014 portrait. Photo by Walterlan Papetti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Watermarked by IAM.com®.

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Kate Moss (born January 16, 1974) is a British fashion model, businesswoman, and founder of the Kate Moss Agency, and for more than three decades she has been the face the industry reaches for when it wants to signal cool rather than explain it. What she does in front of a camera is subtraction: no performance, no pleading, a stillness that lets a photograph feel overheard rather than staged. At 170 cm she was never built for the runway arithmetic of her era, and it never mattered, because the work happens in the frame: the level gaze, the slouch that makes clothes look owned instead of borrowed, an ambiguity that lets a single image read as innocence or knowingness depending on who is looking. Editors call it the thing that cannot be taught; photographers have spent three decades trying to bottle it.

Scouted at 14 by Storm founder Sarah Doukas in a queue at JFK Airport in 1988, she broke through at 16 in Corinne Day’s black-and-white pictures for The Face, images so casually intimate they rewired what a fashion photograph could be. Calvin Klein signed her in 1992, Mario Sorrenti’s Obsession campaign made her the decade’s defining fragrance image, and the press coined a new category, the anti-supermodel, to explain why the era of Amazonian glamour had just ended. More than 30 British Vogue covers followed, along with the houses (Burberry, Dior, Rimmel London since 2001) and the crisis: the September 2005 tabloid drug scandal that cost her contracts in a week and preceded, within a year, a comeback that left her holding more of them than before. The second act turned the image into an enterprise, from the Topshop collections to the Kate Moss Agency, founded in 2016 to manage her career on her own terms.

The current chapter is proof the booking never really closed. She walked Bottega Veneta’s Spring/Summer 2023 show in a look built for her, fronts Isabel Marant’s Spring/Summer 2025 campaign, returned to the Milan runway for Gucci’s Fall/Winter 2026 show in February 2026, and made the 2026 Met Gala her first since 2023. Moss & Freud, the feature film she executive produced about sitting for painter Lucian Freud, reached UK cinemas in May 2026. Few careers in fashion have lasted this long at this altitude; almost none have done it while owning the shop.

People also read: Naomi Campbell (Vogue Paris, August 1988), Cindy Crawford (Pepsi, Super Bowl 1992), Christy Turlington (Calvin Klein Eternity), Linda Evangelista (Versace Fall/Winter 1991)

Quick Facts

Real Name:Katherine Ann Moss
Profession:Fashion model, businesswoman, and talent agency founder
Born:January 16, 1974
Age:52 (as of 2026)
Birthplace:Croydon, London, England
Nationality:British
Height:170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Modeling Type(s):Fashion and runway
Discovered / Path In:Scouted at 14 by Storm Model Management founder Sarah Doukas at JFK Airport, New York, in 1988, on the way home from a family holiday in the Bahamas
Runway Debut:1990 season, London (John Galliano Spring/Summer 1990)
Agency / Representation:Kate Moss Agency (self-founded, London)
Known For:The Corinne Day pictures for The Face that launched the 1990s; the Calvin Klein Obsession campaign; a three-decade run as British fashion’s defining face and, latterly, its most watched founder
Notable Campaigns & Covers:The Face, July 1990; Calvin Klein Obsession 1993; Vogue UK, March 1993; Rimmel London (2001–present); Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2023
Awards:CFDA Fashion Influence Award (2005); Time 100 (2007); British Fashion Awards Special Recognition (2013)
Zodiac Sign:Capricorn
Relationship:Single; a split from photographer Nikolai von Bismarck was reported in December 2024; previously married to musician Jamie Hince (2011–2016)
Years Active:1988 to present
Kate Moss and other British models at the London 2012 closing ceremony
Kate Moss and other British models during the London 2012 closing ceremony. Photo by Nick Webb, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Cara Delevingne taking a photograph beside Kate Moss in 2014
Cara Delevingne and Kate Moss photographed together in 2014. Photo by Walterlan Papetti, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Kate Moss at a public appearance in 2015
Kate Moss at a public appearance in 2015. Photo by Renan Katayama, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Kate Moss in a cropped portrait from a 2019 Decorté advertisement
Kate Moss in a 2019 Decorté advertisement. Photo by Crooked House Films, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Early Life & Education

Katherine Ann Moss was born on January 16, 1974, in Croydon, south London, to Linda, a barmaid, and Peter Moss, an airline employee, and grew up in the borough’s Addiscombe and Sanderstead neighborhoods with her younger brother Nick. Her parents divorced when she was 13, a rupture she has described as the end of anyone telling her what to do. She attended Ridgeway Primary School and Riddlesdown High School in Purley, worked local retail jobs in her early teens, and showed no particular ambition toward fashion. She said later that she would never have admitted to wanting to model, “because I thought that was vain.”

The discovery story is the industry’s most retold: in 1988, at 14, waiting in a standby queue at JFK Airport after a Bahamas holiday, she was spotted by Sarah Doukas, the founder of London’s Storm Model Management, who signed her. What followed was not a rocket but a slog, two years of school terms broken up by go-sees, test shoots, and catalog work, including experiences that she has since described plainly as exploitation. She recounted on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in 2022 that, at around 15, a photographer on a lingerie catalog shoot pressed her to undress further until she grabbed her things and ran; she was a minor working in an industry that then had few guardrails, and she has told the story as fact rather than folklore.

The break came through photographer Corinne Day, who shot the 16-year-old in black and white for The Face, culminating in the July 1990 cover story “The 3rd Summer of Love,” styled by Melanie Ward on the sands at Camber. Day called the approach “dirty realism”: no retouching gloss, no Amazonian posing, a teenager laughing on a beach. The pictures made her the accidental face of a generational shift, and by the time she made her runway debut in John Galliano’s Spring/Summer 1990 show in London, the fashion press had already begun treating a girl from Croydon as the argument against everything the 1980s had decided a model should be.

Career Highlights and Milestones

Calvin Klein turned the cult discovery into a global one. Signed in 1992, she shot the label’s underwear campaign opposite Mark Wahlberg, an experience she revisited unsparingly three decades later on Desert Island Discs, recalling that she felt objectified, “vulnerable and scared.” The pictures that defined the contract came in 1993, when her then-boyfriend Mario Sorrenti photographed her for the Obsession fragrance in the Virgin Islands: spare, private-feeling images that a rival would have needed a hundred people on set to fake. Her first British Vogue cover arrived in March 1993, and with it the debate. The press called the new silhouette the waif and, later, heroin chic; commentators up to and including President Bill Clinton attacked the aesthetic, and Moss became the lightning rod for an argument that was really about the whole industry’s image-making. She has framed the moment, in her own retellings, as a pendulum swing away from the athletic glamour of the late 1980s that audiences simply were not ready to see.

Modeling is co-authored, and the roll call of her collaborators doubles as a history of the modern fashion image: Corinne Day’s realism, Sorrenti’s intimacy, and then Mario Testino, Juergen Teller, Steven Meisel, Steven Klein, and Peter Lindbergh, each finding a different register in the same face. On the runway she became John Galliano’s talisman through his fabled early-1990s Paris shows, and the houses lined up: the Mario Testino-era Burberry campaigns from 1999, launch-issue covers for Vogue Russia (alongside Amber Valletta) and Vogue Japan, and 17 covers of W, which named her its muse in September 2003. The contract that mattered most was the least glamorous on paper: Rimmel London signed her in 2001, and the relationship has run for a quarter century, the exclusive beauty deal that is this profession’s real pinnacle. In 2002 she sat for painter Lucian Freud over nine months of night sittings; the resulting portrait sold at auction in 2005 for £3,928,000, a number that said the culture now valued images of her the way it valued art, because they were art.

Then the churn caught her. In September 2005 the Daily Mirror published photographs of Moss appearing to use cocaine; within days H&M dropped her from a campaign reported at the time to be worth £4 million a year, Burberry pulled its campaign, and Chanel declined to renew a contract it said was expiring anyway. She apologized publicly, entered a treatment program, and faced a police inquiry that ended in June 2006 with all charges dropped for lack of evidence. Fashion, notably, split from the tabloids: Alexander McQueen took his bow in a “We love you Kate” T-shirt, then closed his Fall/Winter 2006 show, The Widows of Culloden, with a life-size illusion of Moss floating inside a glass pyramid, one of the most replayed runway moments ever staged. The comeback was not survival but escalation. Within a year she held more contracts than before the scandal, added Dior, Longchamp, and Roberto Cavalli to the book, launched Kate Moss for Topshop in May 2007 by posing in the Oxford Street flagship window, and by 2012 ranked second on the Forbes list of the world’s top-earning models with an estimated $9.2 million year.

The second act has been about ownership. She became a contributing fashion editor at British Vogue in 2013, took the British Fashion Awards’ Special Recognition Award that December for 25 years’ contribution, and in September 2016 left Storm after 28 years to found the Kate Moss Agency, telling the industry she wanted to manage careers, starting with her own. The bookings since have been scarce by design and seismic by effect: walking Kim Jones’s Fendi haute couture debut in January 2021 in the same show as her daughter Lila Moss, opening stretches of cultural conversation with a single Bottega Veneta walk in September 2022, fronting Isabel Marant’s Spring/Summer 2025 campaign, and returning to Milan for Gucci’s Fall/Winter 2026 show in February 2026. The entrepreneurial record is candidly mixed, and she has let it be public: the Diet Coke creative directorship (2022) and two fast-selling Zara capsules (2024 and 2025) on one side, and on the other Cosmoss, the wellness brand she launched in 2022 and placed into voluntary liquidation in June 2025 owing creditors about £3 million. In May 2022 she testified, unprompted by either side’s theatrics, in the Depp v. Heard trial to rebut a rumor about her own past, and in 2025 she stepped behind the camera as executive producer of Moss & Freud, the feature dramatizing the Freud sittings, which premiered at the BFI London Film Festival that October and reached UK cinemas in May 2026.

Selected Career Highlights

  • The Face cover story, “The 3rd Summer of Love” (July 1990), shot by Corinne Day: the pictures that started the decade
  • Runway debut at John Galliano’s Spring/Summer 1990 show, London Fashion Week
  • Calvin Klein contract (1992) and the Mario Sorrenti-shot Obsession campaign (1993)
  • First British Vogue cover (March 1993), the first of more than 30
  • Launch-issue covers for Vogue Russia, with Amber Valletta (1998), and Vogue Japan (1999)
  • Rimmel London contract signed (2001), still running a quarter century later
  • Sat for Lucian Freud’s nine-month portrait (2002); the painting sold for £3,928,000 (2005)
  • Named the muse of W magazine (September 2003)
  • Cleared of all charges in the drug inquiry (June 2006) and staged fashion’s most complete comeback, with more contracts than before
  • Kate Moss for Topshop launched with the Oxford Street window appearance (May 2007)
  • Closed the London 2012 Olympic Games ceremony’s fashion segment in gold Alexander McQueen (August 2012)
  • Founded the Kate Moss Agency after 28 years with Storm (September 2016)
  • Walked Kim Jones’s Fendi haute couture debut alongside daughter Lila Moss (January 2021)
  • Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2023 walk and campaign (2022–2023), the viral return that reset her market
  • Gucci Fall/Winter 2026 runway return in Milan (February 2026)

Major Recognition

  • CFDA Fashion Influence Award (2005), created for her in place of that year’s Fashion Icon award
  • Named to the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people (2007)
  • British Fashion Awards Special Recognition Award (2013), for 25 years’ contribution to fashion
  • Selected by Sir Peter Blake for his 2012 re-creation of the Sgt. Pepper album cover, among the British cultural figures he most admires
  • Ranked second on the Forbes list of the world’s top-earning models (2012)
  • Portraits of Moss, including work by Corinne Day, are held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Awards and Accolades

Her era largely predates the modern Model of the Year circuit, so the formal awards shelf is shorter than the influence; the honors that do exist arrived at icon scale.

Year Award Category Context Result
2003 W magazine muse designation Editorial honor Named the magazine’s muse in its September 2003 issue after a record run of covers Conferred
2005 Fashion Influence Award Council of Fashion Designers of America The CFDA forwent its Fashion Icon award that year and created this honor for Moss instead Awarded
2007 Time 100 Time magazine Named among the world’s 100 most influential people Selected
2012 Sgt. Pepper re-creation, British cultural icons Sir Peter Blake Chosen by the artist for his updated version of the Beatles album cover, honoring the British cultural figures of his lifetime Selected
2012 World’s top-earning models, No. 2 Forbes Estimated $9.2 million in a single year, two decades into the career Selected
2013 Special Recognition Award British Fashion Awards (British Fashion Council) For her contribution to fashion across 25 years Awarded

Selected Campaigns & Covers

Year(s) Campaign / Cover Brand / Publication Type Notes
1990 “The 3rd Summer of Love” cover and editorial The Face Cover Shot by Corinne Day at Camber Sands, styled by Melanie Ward: the black-and-white pictures that ended the Amazonian supermodel monopoly and started the 1990s.
1992–1999 House face, underwear and Obsession fragrance Calvin Klein Campaign Signed at 18; the 1993 Obsession pictures, shot by then-boyfriend Mario Sorrenti in the Virgin Islands, remain the era’s defining fragrance images.
1993 First British Vogue cover (March 1993) Vogue UK Cover The establishment ratifying the outsider; more than 30 British Vogue covers follow.
1998–1999 Launch-issue covers Vogue Russia; Vogue Japan Cover Inaugural-issue castings (Russia alongside Amber Valletta): the industry’s shorthand for a face that defines the moment.
1999–2005 House campaigns Burberry Campaign The face of the Mario Testino years that rebuilt the trench for a new generation; the contract lost in September 2005 marked the arc’s lowest point.
2001–present Face of Rimmel London Rimmel Ambassadorship One of beauty’s longest-running celebrity contracts, renewed across a quarter century.
2003 Muse issue (September 2003) W Cover Seventeen W covers in all, including a single issue published with nine different Moss covers.
2005–2010 Comeback contracts Dior; Longchamp; Roberto Cavalli Campaign Within a year of the tabloid storm she held more contracts than before it; Longchamp added a Moss-designed handbag line in 2010.
2013 60th-anniversary cover (January 2014 issue) Playboy Cover Shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott: a provocation entirely on her own terms, weeks before turning 40.
2021 Spring/Summer 2021 haute couture Fendi Runway exclusive Kim Jones’s couture debut; she and daughter Lila Moss walked the same show, the rarest kind of family booking.
2021 Shapewear campaign SKIMS Campaign Kim Kardashian’s label borrowing 1990s authority: proof the image reads as current to an audience born after the Obsession ads.
2022–2023 Spring/Summer 2023 show and campaign Bottega Veneta Runway exclusive Walked Matthieu Blazy’s Milan show (September 2022) sixth in the lineup, in a trompe-l’œil leather flannel and jeans built for her; fronted the season’s campaign, and the house printed a fanzine about her (2023).
2025 Spring/Summer 2025 campaign and eyewear Isabel Marant Campaign Shot in Paris by Robin Galiegue; the house’s longtime-muse relationship, extended the same season to its eyewear line.
2026 Fall/Winter 2026 show, Milan Gucci Runway exclusive A full-circle walk (February 2026) at the house whose Tom Ford era she embodied, now under new creative direction.

Agency & Representation History

Years Agency / Representation Market(s) Notes
1988–1990 Storm Model Management (new face) London Signed at 14 by founder Sarah Doukas after the JFK Airport scouting; two years of school terms, test shoots, and catalog work before the break.
1990–2016 Storm Model Management (mother agency) London; worldwide bookings Doukas remained her agent for 28 years, from The Face breakthrough through the supermodel and comeback decades; the split was announced in 2016.
2016–present Kate Moss Agency (founder and principal talent) London; worldwide Founded September 2016 in Soho to manage her own career and image directly; her KMA board lists recent work for Saint Laurent (shot by Mert Alas) and Harper’s Bazaar France.
2016–present Direct brand and creative deals via KMA Worldwide Capsule design collaborations (Zara, 2024–2025), the Diet Coke creative directorship (2022), and campaign contracts are negotiated in-house rather than through a traditional mother agency.

Business & Media Ventures

Years Venture / Production Role Notes
2007–2010; 2014 Kate Moss for Topshop Designer and collaborator Launched May 2007 with the Oxford Street window appearance; a run of sell-out collections, then a 2014 return.
2012 Kate: The Kate Moss Book (Rizzoli) Subject and co-creator A career-spanning survey of the image, edited with the photographers who made it.
2016–present Kate Moss Agency Founder London talent management; the roster has included Lila Moss, Rita Ora, and Jordan Barrett.
2022 Diet Coke Creative director Appointed for the brand’s 40th-anniversary year.
2022–2025 Cosmoss Founder Wellness and skincare line launched September 2022 at Harrods; entered voluntary liquidation in June 2025 owing creditors about £3 million, the majority to the Kate Moss Agency.
2024–2025 Zara by Kate Moss capsules Co-designer, with stylist Katy England A party capsule (November 2024) and The Festival Collection (June 2025) for Zara’s 50th anniversary.
2025–2026 Moss & Freud (GFC Films) Executive producer The Lucian Freud sittings dramatized, with Ellie Bamber as Moss; BFI London Film Festival premiere (October 2025), UK release May 29, 2026.

Net Worth, Income, & Lifestyle

Net Worth (2026)Public estimates vary widely. Moss has not disclosed a verified net worth figure. Treat numbers found online as unconfirmed.
Income SourcesCampaign and editorial fees, cosmetics and fragrance contracts, brand ambassadorships, capsule design collaborations, licensing, agency revenue through the Kate Moss Agency, media and film production.
Contracts & Brand PartnershipsThe Rimmel London relationship has run since 2001 and is among beauty’s longest celebrity contracts. The H&M deal lost in 2005 was reported at the time to be worth £4 million a year (contemporary press reports). Forbes estimated her 2012 earnings at $9.2 million, second among models worldwide. Recent partnerships include Zara (2024–2025) and Isabel Marant (2025).
Properties & AssetsMost detailed financial and property information is kept private. Reliable public documentation is limited.
LifestyleSplits her time between London and the Cotswolds, where she has described a deliberately quiet routine of gardening and early-morning meditation: “I’m not into being out of control anymore,” as she put it on Desert Island Discs in 2022.

Social Media & Online Presence

InstagramPersonal account at @katemoss, used sparingly; the agency posts at @katemossagency. Beware soundalike handles: accounts such as “katemoss.official” belong to unrelated people.
TikTokNo official account; her absence from the platform is itself on brand.
X (Twitter)No verified personal account; treat accounts posting in her name with caution.
FacebookNo official public page.
YouTubeNo official channel; archival interviews and show footage live on brand, publisher, and broadcaster channels.
Agency ProfileOfficial board page at katemossagency.com.
Official WebsitePersonal site at katemoss.com, a single page directing all enquiries to the Kate Moss Agency.

NOTE: In addition to any official accounts listed above, many fan-run pages, appreciation accounts, and fashion-history accounts exist across platforms. These are not confirmed to be affiliated with Kate Moss or her representatives. Links and usernames can change at any time.

Trivia & Lesser-Known Facts

  • Alexander McQueen closed his Fall/Winter 2006 show, The Widows of Culloden, with a life-size illusion of Moss materializing inside a glass pyramid, months after wearing a “We love you Kate” T-shirt for his bow at the height of the tabloid scandal; the hologram finale remains one of the most replayed runway moments ever staged.
  • Marc Quinn’s Siren (2008), a 50 kg solid 18-carat gold sculpture of Moss shown at the British Museum, was described at its unveiling as the largest gold statue made since ancient Egypt; Quinn had earlier cast her in bronze as Sphinx.
  • Her music-world cameos are a subculture of their own: she played tambourine on Oasis recordings of the Britpop era, with then-boyfriend Johnny Depp on guitar, and pole-danced through the White Stripes’ Sofia Coppola-directed video for “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself” (2003).
  • Lucian Freud tattooed two small birds on her during the 2002 portrait sittings; she has joked that it makes her a walking original, “probably the only living person with a Lucian Freud” on her skin.
  • At the 2014 Brit Awards she collected David Bowie’s award for Best British Male on his behalf, wearing the original Ziggy Stardust-era “woodland creatures” costume Bowie wore in 1972.

Quotes

“I would never, ever have said to anybody I wanted to be a model, because I thought that was vain.”

– Kate Moss, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4 (July 2022)

“I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, ‘If you don’t do it, then we’re not going to book you again.’ So I’d lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it.”

– Kate Moss, interview with James Fox, Vanity Fair (September 2012)

“I hate fashion codes. I hate, like, ‘Oh, this bag’s in fashion, so everybody designs the same bag.'”

– Kate Moss, Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud podcast (2024)

“Cosmoss is very personal to me, I wanted to create something I believed in, something that I could share.”

– Kate Moss, WWD interview (2023)

“I’m not into being out of control anymore. I like to get to bed and do my meditation before anyone gets up. I like to feel in control.”

– Kate Moss, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4 (July 2022)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: What is Kate Moss’s age?
A: Kate Moss was born on January 16, 1974, making her 52 years old as of 2026.

Q: What is Kate Moss best known for?
A: For the Corinne Day pictures in The Face (1990) and the Calvin Klein Obsession campaign (1993) that reset fashion’s idea of a model, for more than 30 British Vogue covers, and for a three-decade career that turned into a business empire spanning the Kate Moss Agency, design collaborations, and film production.

Q: Which agency represents Kate Moss?
A: She represents herself through the Kate Moss Agency, the London company she founded in September 2016 after 28 years with Storm Model Management.

Q: How was Kate Moss discovered?
A: Storm Model Management founder Sarah Doukas spotted the 14-year-old Moss in a standby queue at New York’s JFK Airport in 1988, as she returned from a family holiday in the Bahamas.

Q: Is Kate Moss still modeling?
A: Yes, selectively and at the top of the market: recent work includes the Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2023 show and campaign, Isabel Marant’s Spring/Summer 2025 campaign, and a runway return at Gucci’s Fall/Winter 2026 show in Milan in February 2026.

Q: What are Kate Moss’s most famous campaigns and covers?
A: The Face‘s “The 3rd Summer of Love” cover (July 1990), Calvin Klein’s Obsession campaign (1993), her first British Vogue cover (March 1993), the Mario Testino-era Burberry campaigns, the Rimmel London contract running since 2001, and the viral Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2023 appearance.

Q: Does Kate Moss have official social media?
A: Her personal Instagram is @katemoss, used sparingly, and her company posts at @katemossagency; she has no official TikTok, X, or Facebook presence, and lookalike accounts should be treated with caution.

Upcoming Campaigns & Projects

  • Moss & Freud international rollout (Vertigo Releasing and territory distributors, through 2026): following the May 29, 2026 UK release, further territory releases have been announced and remain subject to change until confirmed by each distributor.
  • Zara partnership status (Zara, TBA): after two capsule collections (November 2024 and June 2025), no third collection has been announced; treat any continuation as unconfirmed until Zara announces it.
  • Season bookings (Fall/Winter 2026 and beyond, TBA): Moss books rarely; no shows or campaigns beyond those already staged have been announced, and appearances should be treated as subject to change until confirmed by the brand or organizer.

Campaign work in this industry is embargoed by default; brands announce, models rarely pre-announce, and nothing beyond the above should be assumed until confirmed by the brand or organizer.

Interviews & Features

  • Grazia, “Six Important Takeaways From Kate Moss’ Desert Island Discs Interview” (July 2022), a digest of her frankest broadcast interview, covering the scouting years, exploitation on early shoots, and the life she keeps now.
  • Variety, “Kate Moss Played by Ellie Bamber in Movie About Supermodel’s Relationship With Lucian Freud” (February 2023), the announcement report on Moss & Freud, with her statement on shepherding the project as executive producer.
  • AnOther, “Bottega Veneta Publishes a Fanzine Dedicated to Kate Moss” (April 2023), on Matthieu Blazy’s veneration of Moss and the anatomy of the viral Spring/Summer 2023 runway look.
  • WWD, “Kate Moss’ Beauty Brand Cosmoss Enters Liquidation Proceedings After Three Years” (July 2025), the clearest account of the Cosmoss wind-down and what the filing revealed about the business.
  • Vogue Adria, “Kate Moss returned to the 2026 Met Gala in sheer Saint Laurent” (May 2026), a Met-by-Met retrospective of three decades of first-Monday appearances, from the 1995 Calvin Klein slip onward.

Public Appearances & Events

  • Met Gala 2026 (May 4, 2026): Moss returned to the Met Gala in New York for the first time since 2023, in a sheer black lace Saint Laurent gown by Anthony Vaccarello, extending a run of appearances dating to 1995.
  • Paris Fashion Week (March 2026): she attended Saint Laurent’s Fall/Winter 2026 show in Paris, photographed in a violet blouse and grey tailoring that fashion press flagged as an early marker of the season’s color shift.
  • Milan Fashion Week (February 27, 2026): she walked Gucci’s Fall/Winter 2026 show in Milan, her first Gucci runway appearance since the house’s Tom Ford era defined her 1990s image.
  • BFI London Film Festival (October 10, 2025): Moss & Freud premiered in London with Moss, its executive producer, appearing alongside star Ellie Bamber at the festival launch.
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