The Queen of street fashion and supermodel, Kate Moss is as familiar in headlines as on the catwalk. This searching expose of her life covers her misspent youth in Croydon, to her remarkable rise to the top and the photographers and lovers including Johnny Depp and Pete Doherty who made it possible. Throughout her career, Kate Moss has taken part in the controversial Calvin Klein perfume campaign, posed nude and pregnant for Lucian Freud, posed for the Pirelli calendar and has been the face for Chanel, Burberry, Dior and the Rimmel television advertisements. Her megastar romances and celebrity escapades constantly keep her in the media spotlight. The updated paperback edition includes details of Kate's 2006 cocaine scandal and rumoured engagement to rocker Pete Doherty as well as her astounding career recovery resulting in a multi million pound deal with high street fashion mecca Top Shop.
With this book now being fourteen years old, one could indeed suggest that another Kate Moss biography could be on the way with this published just after her dramatic fall from grace in 2005.
Unfortunately, the book is riddled with so many spelling mistakes and editing errors that it makes you wonder whether this was checked before being sent to the printers, and ends on a weird note not really concluding everything written previously.
Despite that, it is a very in-depth and indeed well researched biography about her providing a social and cultural context, telling us the how's and why's to how she got to where she is today.
Content - 3/5 Spelling mistakes and editing errors reduce it to a 2/5.