Kate Moss revealed the abuse she faced for her ‘heroin chic’ aesthetic.
The 50-year-old, who became the poster girl for the trend in the Nineties, said that people would approach her in the street and accuse her of promoting eating disorders.
HOW KATE MOSS WAS ABUSED
She told a new Disney+ documentary: ‘Parents would come up to me and say, “My daughter’s anorexic”. It was awful.
‘I think because I was just skinny, and people weren’t used to seeing skinny. But if I’d been more buxom, it wouldn’t have been such a big deal. It’s just that my body shape was different from the models before me.’
The look became popular after the then 19-year-old posed in lingerie for the June 1993 issue of Vogue.
WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT THE SHOOT
Describing the shoot with photographer Corinne Day, Ms Moss said: ‘I just felt really good. The whole shoot, I felt really comfortable, I loved creating the images. You know, it wasn’t glamorous. It was in my flat in London.’
‘Our bedroom was like a bedsit. That’s the kind of fashion I liked. It was much simpler.’
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SOME REFLECTIONS
Reflecting on the backlash to the original photo, which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in west London, fashion editor Catherine Kasterine told the documentary: ‘The public were not ready. They were absolutely appalled.
‘Immediately, the pictures were completely vilified and slammed. Perhaps we’d underestimated how that look had in our minds been quite normal.’
Vogue editor Dame Anna Wintour said: ‘That look – very undernourished-looking model – made people uncomfortable.
‘Many of us at Vogue worried about heroin chic or anorexia, all the things that are associated with that look. It got to such a fever pitch. I remember physically being in the White House when the Clinton administration took the issue on.’
