50 years as queen of wellness: on Tuesday 16 January in Mustique, the Caribbean island loved by royalty, rock stars and the super-rich, Kate Moss crosses the milestone of the first half century. Diva of the catwalks of the nineties whose emaciated look became a symbol of heroin chic, at the halfway point of 50 candles the former bad girl of fashion has put behind her the controversies of when she was on the crest of the wave. Fifty is the new forty for Croyden's ex-girlfriend, discovered by an agency at JFK when she was just 14 years old and immediately projected on the cover of the bible of The Face style. "Kate didn't meet the standards of the models at the time. She was relatively short, with freckles, imperfect teeth, and smiled spontaneously when she was photographed," recalls former director Richard Benson: "She had the same interests as people but didn't project a perfect lifestyle."
In the Nineties she was at the center of controversy when, unlike her curvaceous and very tall colleagues Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Elle MacPherson, she became the manifesto-girl for 'sub-zero' sizes. "No taste is better than feeling thin," Moss said at the time in a joke that was later retracted when crowds of teenagers, fascinated by her emaciated physique, had tried at the risk of their lives to emulate her almost skin-and-bones look. Then there were the wild nights, the rivers of champagne (even at 10 in the morning before facing the lights of the catwalk), cocaine - in 2005 it did not suffer trouble for lack of evidence, but the agreements with brands such as Chanel and Burburry were cancelled - and finally smoking. Already an emblem of British fashion thanks to the agreement with the Top Shop chain, in 2011 Kate was photographed while lighting a cigarette during a fashion show and the UK press cried scandal: it was No Smoking Day.
Today, Kate Moss lives full-time surrounded by nature in Little Faringdon, an Oxfordshire village, dividing her time between meditation, swimming naked in the moonlight in streams, the vegetable garden and trips to the local nursery. The new-age reinvention has paid off: in 2022, the former heavy smoker launched a wellness company, Cosmoss, which sells herbal teas, expensive cosmetics and homeopathic perfumes. The company landed in the U.S. in November. Kate has also put her stormy love affairs behind her: the men in her life include publisher Jefferson Hack, father of daughter Lila Grace (at 21 she is also a model, the two are on the cover of the December issue of British Vogue), Libertines frontman Pete Doherty and Kills guitarist Jamie Hince, to whom she was married for five years amid rumors of an affair with the now 1994-year-old photographer Nikolai von Bismarck to whom she is still tied up today. First of all, Johnny Depp: three years together between 1998 and <>. Kate rushed to his aid last year in court to deny allegations that he, accused of domestic violence by ex-wife Amber Heard, threw her down the stairs.
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