The most recent Kate Moss headlines—a slurred speech at a Wall Street Journal event, a “wardrobe malfunction” that exposed one of her breasts outside a London nightclub—are hardly news. The 48-year-old supermodel has always been defined by outré behavior. In 1992, after Calvin Klein made Moss the face of CK, his offshoot brand, she became the 90s’ most prominent party girl. Throughout the 2000s, she was photographed leaving countless nightclubs and parties, often, it seemed, under the influence of this or that.
In September 2005, when Moss was 31, a particular scandal threatened to permanently tarnish her career and legacy. A hidden camera caught Moss cutting and snorting lines of cocaine in a London recording studio—after she’d become a mother and claimed to have sworn off drugs—along with her then boyfriend, Pete Doherty, of the Libertines, and his Babyshambles producer, Mick Jones, of the Clash. The photos appeared on the front page of the tabloid Daily Mirror. Brands, including H&M, Chanel, and Burberry, vowed to stop working with Moss.
