Kate Moss

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

Newsnight and news presenter Emily Maitlis joins her father, retired inorganic chemistry Professor Peter Michael Maitlis, in the pages of Who’s Who.

TV figures include The Thick Of It writer Armando Iannucci and Amanda Ross, joint Managing Director of Cactus TV, which makes Richard and Judy.

Her two dogs, Poppet and Bella, are the first canine entry in Who’s Who.

Who’s Who will be published in time for Christmas for the first time in its history, with over 1,000 new entries.

The 160th annual edition brings together over 33,000 personal vignettes of those whose achievements are noted in today’s society.

The first edition of Who’s Who - a compact, 250-page volume one tenth of the size of the 2008 edition - was published in 1849.

Kate drops down best dressed list - Nov 7 2007
Kate Moss may be losing her style icon status after dropping down a list of Britain’s best dressed women.

The supermodel now ranks a lowly 10th in the eyes of fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar.

Dame Helen Mirren, Lily Allen and JK Rowling are all deemed more stylish.

And to add insult to injury, Kate is deemed less fashionable than the two models who succeeded her in the affections of former partners Pete Doherty and Jefferson Hack.

Pete’s ex, Romanian Irina Lazareanu, is ninth while Jefferson’s girlfriend, Anouck Lepere, is eighth.

Kate topped the list in 2004, and placed second and third in the following years.

The most stylish woman of 2007 is Russian model Natalia Vodianova, according to Harper’s.

Second is actress Thandie Newton, followed by model Agyness Deyn.

Dame Helen Mirren is a regal fourth and Lily Allen is fifth.

The Devil Wears Prada’s Emily Blunt is sixth and Harry Potter author JK Rowling is seventh.

The list is in the December issue of Harper’s Bazaar, out Thursday.

Harper’s Bazaar Best Dressed Of 2007
1 Natalia Vodianova
2 Thandie Newton
3 Agyness Deyn
4 Dame Helen Mirren
5 Lily Allen
6 Emily Blunt
7 JK Rowling
8 Anouck Lepere
9 Irina Lazareanu
10 Kate Moss
11 Naomi Watts
12 Jemima Khan
13 Rosamund Pike
14 Sam Taylor Wood
15 Madonna
16 Naomie Harris
17 Peaches Geldof
18 Sienna Miller
19 Daphne Guinness
20 Lily Donaldson
21 Keira Knightley
22 Rachel Weisz
23 Kate Winslet
24 Emma Watson
25 Roksanda Ilincic

Kate’s Christmas collection unveiled - Oct 17 2007
Kate Moss has unveiled her latest collection for Topshop designed for the festive season.

The Christmas collection is the supermodel’s fourth range for the high street chain and features floor-length gowns and suits alongside shimmering mini-dresses.

Kate launched the range at a dinner and fashion show which she co-hosted with Topshop owner Sir Philip Green.

The collection goes on sale on October 25.

Photographs released to coincide with the launch show Kate sporting shorter hair and a new fringe.

The latest range appears to include more grown-up designs, with models shown wearing loosely draped items, light scarves and a Fedora hat.

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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