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• What followed was a meteoric rise to fame, where the waifish, 5-foot-7-inch Moss became the face of the infamous ’90s fashion trend “heroin chic” — a grungy contrast to the glamorous, leggy look popularized by fellow supermodels of the day, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer..
• In addition to high-profile romances with Johnny Depp, magazine editor Jefferson Hack and The Libertines front man Pete Doherty, her alleged drug use was widely reported by the British media in 2005, leading her to lose lucrative modelling contracts with Burberry, Chanel and H&M..
• “So for them to focus on me, and to try to take my daughter away, I thought was really hypocritical.”) Moss later went on to climb Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s highest-paid models..
• British supermodel Kate Moss turns 50 today — and she remains as much a cultural icon as when she emerged as a breakout star more than three decades ago..
• “She wasn’t like a model… but I knew she was going to be famous.” ‘Everyone is in the same boat’: Is designing fashion worth going into debt?.
• (“I felt sick and was quite angry, because everybody I knew took drugs,” she recalled to the BBC in a rare radio interview in 2022..