Kate Moss

Profession: Model
Place/Date of Birth: Croydon, London, England, 16 January 1974
Associated with: Jamie Hince, Pete Doherty, Sadie Frost

Other items in the collection include skinny jeans, one-shoulder mini dresses and T-shirts with the letter K woven into their designs.

The Croydon-born supermodel, who was reportedly paid £3 million to create the fashion range, didn’t appear at the launch.

Brisk Sales for Kate Collection - 1 May 2007
Topshop reported brisk sales of its new Kate Moss collection today as it went on nationwide high street release.

The supermodel’s designs were launched at Topshop’s Oxford Street store last night.

Shoppers across the UK had their first chance to grab a piece of the collection when 225 other Topshop branches opened their doors this morning.

The fashion chain’s website had 50,000 users by early afternoon, with 40,000 people downloading film footage of the London launch event.

High demand meant the online store’s allocation sold out by early afternoon and had to be re-stocked.

Topshop said none of Kate’s designs sold out today because the chain had ordered large volumes in advance.

A pansy print dress and smock top, a black mini dress and white vest top were among the most popular items at the Oxford Street store.

Topshop spokesman Andrew Leahy said: "This is the first day and it is an ongoing collaboration. If we had sold out today, we would have been in quite a lot of trouble."

Some items were selling on eBay today for more than double their in-store retail price.

An eBay spokesman said the site hadn’t been inundated, and bidding this morning didn’t seem "massively excitable".

Topshop tried to avoid shoppers selling the collection quickly on eBay by limiting each person’s purchases to five different items.

More than 1,000 shoppers mobbed the London store last night as Kate posed in a window display wearing a red dress she designed to launch the collection.

Fans queue for Kate collection - April 30 2007
The first shoppers started queuing for the new Kate Moss collection today, nearly eight hours before it goes on sale at Topshop.

First in line outside the chain’s flagship Oxford Street store was a 16-year-old who took the day off school especially.

A freelance journalist and a TV reporter were among the eight people in line this afternoon.

The supermodel’s debut fashion collection will prompt a shopping frenzy at Topshop when it launches nationwide tomorrow morning, experts predict.

A four-hour preview is being held at the chain’s flagship store from 8pm until midnight tonight.

First in line today was Yasmin Kidd, 16, from Blackheath, south east London, who arrived before 12.30pm.

"I want to get first pick. I’m a fan of Kate Moss and I usually shop at Topshop. I have seen previews and stuff in photos but I don’t know what I want yet," she said.

Yasmin was accompanied by her mother, 35-year-old Katherine Kidd, who said she’d allowed her daughter to take the day off.

"She tried to get the Anya Hindmarch bag and went to lots of Sainsbury’s and couldn’t get it, so I thought I would let her do Topshop. One day off won’t hurt - she’s an A student," she said.

Also in the queue was Marie Raymond, a 26-year-old from Nice, France, who’s on holiday in London.

"I want to buy Kate Moss clothes for me and my friends. I like her style - she always wears the right things and I like her look," she said.

Five item limit on Kate’s collection - April 22 2007
Shoppers snapping up the new Kate Moss fashion collection will be limited to five items each to prevent the clothes appearing on eBay.

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Biography

In 1988, Kate Moss was discovered by Sarah Doukas, the founder of Storm model agency, at JFK airport at the age of just 14, as she prepared to board a flight home to London with her father.

After a series of shoots for teenage magazines, it was Harper’s Bazaar that finally launched her into the international arena. In 1992, she became the Face of Calvin Klein. Moss originally spearheaded the controversial "waif" look which critics claimed encouraged anorexia in impressionable teenagers. The girl from Croydon, who once said she "might’ve been a bank manager" now divides her time between London and LA, where she is often seen at The Viper Rooms, the controversial club owned by her one-time actor boyfriend Johnny Depp.

She has appeared in several notable documentaries about the fashion world and in 1995, released a hard-back book of pictures entitled simply "Kate". Having checked into London’s £300-a-day Priory Clinic in November 1998 suffering from exhaustion, Kate emerged refreshed the following January to announce that she had spent the last decade modelling "drunk". She told The Face magazine, "That’s what you do. You always have champagne before the shows. Always. Even at ten in the morning. It got to the point one time when we were [saying], ’We’re not going out without any champagne’."

Losing the Calvin Klein contract to fellow Brit Lisa Ratliffe in 1999, Kate has now taken on the status of fashion icon. In the May 2000 issue of Vogue, she played muse to a variety of the most cutting edge artists and photographers. In London she is still represented by Storm. Written in 2000
March 2008