Kate Moss Style File: The Best Photographs Of Britain's Ultimate Style Muse
If anyone has earned the title of 'style icon', it's Kate The Great.
From more or less the minute she was scouted at age 14 at JFK airport, Kate Moss has been a style icon. And though that phrase gets tossed around with such regularity that it's essentially meaningless, Moss is a name — a household one at that — who has more than earned the title earnestly.
Moss' initial influence might have come from the imagery she created at the very start of the Nineties, fast becoming the face of a new fashion movement, yet it wasn't long before her off-set style was turning heads and spurring countless imitations. Women world-over soon began to scramble to emulate her grungy take on red-carpet dressing or her seemingly carefree way of pairing vintage and the runway-fresh with insouciant ease. And that constant admiration has never wavered, perhaps reaching fever pitch when she released her namesake Topshop collaboration in the mid-Noughties.
Now, at 50, her sartorial legacy is engrained in the cultural zeitgeist. What was once simply the supermodel's style is now a nation's signature and, as TikTok will confirm, generation after generation's obsession.
From her recent red-carpet looks that prove as daring as her first to the front-row looks that challenge the catwalk for attention, revisit 50 of Kate Moss' most-enduring outfits.
Kate Moss at The Fashion Awards, London, December 2023
For the 2023 Fashion Awards, Moss wore a diaphanous ensemble comprised of a vintage David Fielden dress with a Yves Saint Laurent cape. She paired the pieces with embellished platform sandals and a handheld clutch.
Kate Moss at The Clooney Foundation For Justice's 'The Albies', New York, September 2023
The supermodel wore a sheer vintage dress dating from the 1930s with chunky gold Piferi platforms to attend the New York event.
Kate Moss at the Saint Laurent Show, Paris, September 2023
She proved to be the ultimate Saint Laurent poster girl at the brand's SS24 show during Paris Fashion Week, wearing a tailored skirt suit with brown pumps and dark-lensed sunglasses.
Kate Moss at The Met Gala, New York, May 2023
Moss chose a look by Kim Jones for Fendi for the 2023 Met Gala that honoured Karl Lagerfeld, himself a former Fendi creative director.
Kate Moss at the Saint Laurent Show, Paris, September 2022
In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, Moss sat front row at the Saint Laurent show wearing a classic LBC with statement gold jewellery and languidly trailed her black coat alongside her.
Kate Moss at The Met Gala, New York, May 2022
Arriving with her daughter Lila, Moss wore a black Burberry velvet dress that took on the British house's signature trench detailing.
Kate Moss at the Dior Men show, Paris, June 2019
Supporting her friend Kim Jones in his role as creative director of Dior Men, Moss wore an open grey silk shirt with matching tailored trousers and heeled pumps.
Kate Moss at The Met Gala, New York, May 2019
She wore a bedazzling caped gown by Marc Jacobs for the camp-themed Met Gala, complete with matching diamonds.
Kate Moss at The Met Gala, New York, May 2018
For the Met Gala 2018, that had the theme 'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination', Moss wore a black Saint Laurent dress with wing-like feather detail.
Kate Moss at Basilica San Pedro, Lima, Peru, March 2018
At the wedding of Prince Christian of Hanover and Alessandra de Osma at Basilica San Pedro in Lima, Peru, Kate wore a printed bow-detail dress to attend with Nikolai von Bismarck.
Kate Moss at The Serpentine Summer Party, London, July 2016
For the annual summer garden party, Moss wore a dress of her own design taken from her Topshop collection with a cropped button-up blazer.
Kate Moss arrives at the Miu Miu show, Paris, France July 2015
The supermodel wore a look by the Italian house with a bouncy blow dry hairstyle.
Kate Moss at The amfAR Gala, Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 2015
She wore a nude lace and sequin gown by Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci to the 5th annual event.
Kate Moss at London Fashion Week, London, February 2014
Moss attended the Topshop Unique AW14 show at London Fashion Week wearing a floral jumpsuit with a shaggy black jacket.
Kate Moss at The British Fashion Awards, London, December 2013
On the night she accepted a Special Recognition Award at The British Fashion Awards, Kate wore a black leather Alexander McQueen minidress from its SS14 collection.
Kate Moss arrives at an Alexander Mcqueen and Frieze dinner, London, October 2013
She wore an Alexander McQueen dress with a cathedral arch belt from the AW13 collection to the Alexander McQueen and Frieze dinner.
Kate Moss at the opening of 'Kate Moss: The Collection' auction at Christie's, London, September 2013
She wore a silver dupion silk suit with a simple grey vest for the opening of an auction selling depictions of her likeness by a variety of her celebrated collaborators.
Kate Moss at a Louis Vuitton event, Tokyo, Japan, August 2013
Kate wore a soft yellow Louis Vuitton resort 2014 dress to attend an event hosted by the Parisian house in Tokyo.
Kate Moss arrives at The Ivy, London, July 2013
She flaunted her supermodel credentials in a black zip-up Prada dress worn with Christian Louboutin sandals and a clutch bag from her own collaboration with Longchamp.
Kate Moss at a charity benefit, London, June 2013
She chose an A-line tulle gown with a chunky leather waist belt, wearing her hair loose and with a gentle line of eye kohl.
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