Kate Moss is one of the newest of the supermodels. Her unique look has inspired top photographers, including Stephen Meisel, Bruce Weber, Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon, top fashion editors and top fashion designers, particularly Calvin Klein.

Kate Moss entered the modelling scene with a force that belied her fragile frame. Discovered completely by chance at New York's JFK airport, Moss was propelled to international stardom with her waif-like figure and hauntingly seductive features, launching the infamous |heroin-chic| look that dominated the catwalk throughout the 90s. But fast living too its toll on Moss and she soon ended up in rehab. Here, for the first time, is the shocking true story of the passion and pain hiding behind one of the most famous, and beautiful, faces in the world.

Mario Testino, photographer, art collector and entrepreneur, is characterised by a deep-felt desire for style and elegance, and the ability to get involved with people. This volume illustrates this with photographs of models and the famous.

From studio to backstage to after-party, from royals to mega-celebrities, nobody captures the elusive and exclusive like Mario Testino. To compliment his travelling exhibition of the same title, this handpicked retrospective gathers 120 of the daring, intimate and provocative images that have secured his place as the premier photographer of glamor. Spanning 30 years of Testino's high-flying career, these carefully curated images range from formal portraits to sexually charged snapshots, from advertising campaigns to autobiographical photos. Saturated with energy, color and seduction, they are a testament to Testino's unique style and intuitive ability to capture the evocative moment and emotional connection, even with such international superstars as Kate Moss, Gisele Bundchen, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman, Mick Jagger, Madonna, Lady Gaga, and David Beckham.

Years after her discovery at age fourteen at New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport and her quick ascent to the top of the supermodeling world and choice luxury-brand figurehead, Kate Moss represents an unusual success story: that of a middle-class teenager who became one of the best-paid models in the world with no apparent effort. Hers is a story of endless reinvention: more than twenty years later, despite tabloid scandals, drug use, rehab, and tumultuous high-profile romances, Kate Moss appears before us as a fresh creation each time, an ideal subject able to adapt to any circumstance, recast herself ceaselessly through self-staging and self-narration, and make the world fall in love with her over and over again. In Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon, Christian Salmon’s insightful text, accompanied by more than sixty gorgeous images, explores this phenomenon—the story of an icon, a muse, a legend, an enigma—and how our culture has created the collective Kate Moss myth.

Provocative and unexpected new images from one of photography's shrewdest eyes.

The legendary photographer's personal homage to his greatest muse: a young girl that captured his heart and eye with her beauty, humor and spirit, and whose image in his photographs has captured imaginations the world over.