Look up the phrase "heroin chic" on Wikipedia and you'll literally find an entry on Kate Moss - that's how influential this British supermodel was on the 90s fashion scene. Wide-eyed and waif-like, she defined a generation of stick-thin, almost anorexic models which is only now starting to fade away. Whatever her influence was on girls growing up in the past couple of decades, it's hard to deny her intoxicating beauty.
Of course, the grungy look and too-cool-for-eating physique wasn't just a look, but a full-blooded way of life. Her parents divorced when she was 13, only a year before she began modelling, and she saw the non-stop partying as a way out of the family misery. Although she would forever deny rumors that she was anorexic and living too fast, the company she kept said it all...