Synopses & Reviews
A highly personal and complete retrospective of Kate Moss’s career, illustrating her evolution from girl to supermodel to photographic icon, created by Moss herself. Kate Moss began modeling as a teenager, when the first photographs of her shot by Corinne Day appeared in The Face. While her celebrity skyrocketed in the ’90s with her campaigns for Calvin Klein, Moss maintained an intense and private glamour and became known for her dressed-down personal style and resulting street cred. She has remained one of fashion’s most beloved and influential forces, whose legions of admirers range from magazine editors, art directors, and photographers to fans of the collections she designed for Topshop and Longchamp. Moss has been photographed by every top fashion photographer, and this volume spans the entirety of her unparalleled career, from model to fashion designer, and muse to icon, through images that Moss has personally selected for this book. It reveals her unique evolution from a shy and transformative young girl into an international supermodel, showing the strength of her collaborations with the world’s leading photographers, fashion designers, stylists, and artists.
Synopsis
Created by Kate Moss herself, in collaboration with creative director Fabien Baron, Jess Hallett, and Jefferson Hack, this book is a highly personal retrospective of Kate Moss's career, tracing her evolution from "new girl with potential" to one of the most iconic models of all time.
KATE: The Kate Moss Book will be released with eight unique covers, shot by Mario Testino, Corinne Day, Inez & Vinoodh, Craig McDean, Mert & Marcus, David Sims, Mario Sorrenti, and Juergen Teller and will be shipped to customers at random.
Kate Moss began modeling as a teenager and achieved recognition when photographs of her shot by Corinne Day appeared in British magazine The Face. She made her so-called "waif" mark as a counterpoint in the 90s to then-dominant, Amazonian supermodels like Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, and Linda Evangelista, and, with countless international magazine covers and fashion features, and campaigns for brands including Calvin Klein, Chanel, Bulgari, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, and Longchamp, has remained one of fashion's most enduring and influential forces.
Moss's magic has been captured by the world's leading photographers, and this volume spans the entirety of her unparalleled career, from model to fashion designer, and muse to icon. Told through images that Moss has personally selected, KATE shows the influence of her collaborations with top photographers and artists over the last two decades, and clearly demonstrates why her career has had, and continues to have, such incredible longevity.
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
Including many 'never-before-seen' images from her own archives and those of the illustrious photographers with whom she has worked, KATE is a must-have for anyone interested in one of the most iconic models in the history of fashion media and modern culture.
About the Author
Jefferson Hack is the founder of Dazed and Confused, AnOther, and AnOther Man magazines. Previously responsible for managing the careers of some of the fashion industry’s most famous faces, Jess Hallett has risen to become one of the industry’s most respected and heralded casting directors working today.