Kate Moss

Kate Moss is one of the world's most photographed women, a blank slate for contemporary dreams and desires. With a career spanning three decades, she is a rare enduring phenomenon in an industry defined by ephemerality and a brutal quest for novelty. In the summer of 1988, she was fourteen when spotted by model agent Sarah Doukas at JFK airport"”a bored teenager from the London suburb of Croydon with almond eyes, cupid-bow lips, and "God-given bone structure." She would soon become a fashion model, paparazzi favorite, and artist's muse. Yet like the hologram of her image that floated above the catwalk at Alexander McQueen's fall 2006 show, the source of her appeal is elusive. A stark, fragile beauty, possessed of a slightly crumpled "preternatural elegance," she makes clothes look lived in. Never caught in one era, like fashion itself, her look loops back in time while remaining undeniably of the present.