It was the look that made Kate Moss famous: pale skin, slicked-back hair and – infamously – an extremely thin physique. Now the supermodel has 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 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. 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.” 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 th.