Kate Moss is my favourite model, always has been. This is a beautiful shoot by Mert & Marcus for Vanity Fair December is accompanied by a very revealing article from the usually guarded & reticent Kate.
On her early modeling years: “I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and
work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts,” she says. “It didn’t feel like me
at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn’t like
it. I couldn’t get out of bed for two weeks. I thought I was going to
die. I went to the doctor, and he said, ‘I’ll give you some Valium,’ and
Francesca Sorrenti, thank God, said, ‘You’re not taking that.’ It was
just anxiety."
Kate Moss & Mark Wahlberg for Calvin Klein by Mario Sorrenti, 1992
"Nobody takes care of you mentally. There’s a massive
pressure to do what you have to do. I was really little, and I was going
to work with Steven Meisel. It was just really weird—a stretch limo
coming to pick you up from work. I didn’t like it. But it was work, and I
had to do it"
Kate Moss by Corinne Day for FACE Magazine, 1990
"Remembering her now classic photo shoot with Corinne Day for The Face,
Moss says, “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. I never felt very comfortable
about it. There’s a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was
flat-chested. And I had a big mole on one. That picture of me running
down the beach—I’ll never forget doing that, because I made the
hairdresser, who was the only man on the shoot, turn his back.”
Kate Moss & Carla Bruni by Patrick Demarchelier, 1993
On her being labeled the poster girl for the 90's emaciated look, 'Heroin Chic': "I had never even taken heroin - it was nothing to do with me at
all," said Moss. "I think [stylist] Corinne Day - she wasn't on
heroin, but always loved that Lou Reed song, that whole glamorizing
the squat, white-and-black and sparse and thin, and girls with dark
eyes. She loved that look. I was thin, but that's because I was
doing shows, working really hard. At that time I was staying
at a B&B in Milan, and you'd get home from work and there was
no food. You'd get to work in the morning, there was no food.
Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you
don't get fed."
Kate and Johnny Depp, 1994, Annie Leibowitz
On her relationship with Johnny Depp: "He taught me a lot
about fame. He told me 'never complain, never explain'. That's why
I don't use Twitter and things like that. I don't want people to
know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the
mystery...There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me.
Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said:
'What do I do?' - he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I
left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust," he said.
"It was a nightmare - years and years of crying. Oh, the
tears." (See more on Kate & Johnny here).
Kate & John Galliano, 1993
John & Kate at her wedding, July 2011
On her friend John Galliano: “On my wedding day, I’m like freaking out, obviously. ‘You’ve got to
give me a character.’ And [Galliano] said, ‘You have a secret—you are
the last of the English roses. Hide under that veil. When he lifts it,
he’s going to see your wanton past!’”
(See more pics from Kate's wedding day here).
Following are the fab pictures from the Vanity Fair shoot of Kate now, a married Mum of 38 and still looking absolutely amazing. Even in these days of Photoshop, you can't fake bone structure, longevity and photogenicity!
This dress is based on this famous vintage lemon yellow dress Kate wore in 2003 
Kate as Ziggy Stardust by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Paris Vogue December 2011
Kate in Ziggy Stardust's 70s hot-pants jumpsuit at the Brits 2014
