In 1993, 19-year-old Kate Moss told an interviewer, “I don’t want to carry on modelling as long as Lauren Hutton.” Hutton was 50 – the same age that Moss turns on January 16. Moss is still modelling (and, for the record, so is Hutton), walking Bottega Veneta’s spring/summer 2023 runway in Milan and fronting Kim Kardashian’s latest Skims underwear campaign. “Kate is the fashion icon,” said Kardashian. “She has a timeless influence that continues to define whole generations of culture and style.”
There’s no denying Moss has incredible staying power. For 35 years, the famously private model’s motto, “Never complain, never explain,” has seen her thrive through intense criticism about her body, doomed relationships with Hollywood stars and musicians, and a drug scandal. She has long been one of the world’s highest-paid and most in-demand models.
Moss was 14 when the founder of the model agency Storm Management, Sarah Doukas, spotted her at JFK airport in New York. The
