Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon by Christian Salmon

Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon by Christian Salmon is a beautiful “coffee table” type art/fashion book about one of the world’s most famous models.

Book Description

“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.” – Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon

My Thoughts

Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon is written about one of the most famous models in the world, but does it really make it a book worthy of such a top model? I don’t really think so. The information about Kate, the fashion shows, and culture at the time during her career is interesting, but I don’t really think it covered her as well as the author could have done showing how she was made into an “icon.”

The book itself wasn’t what I expected. I thought it would have had more content about Kate Moss, but instead a large amount of the focus of the book seemed to be on the world at the time of career the author was focusing on in each point. Also, the photos of Kate Moss weren’t as many as I expected and not anything that you could probably find doing a Google image search for free. Actually, you could probably find better images doing that.

Overall, it is a pretty book and would be a good addition for someone who collects fashion and model books. It would be an attractive book on a bedside table or coffee table for decoration or for friends and family to read while visiting.

* Thank you to the publisher of Kate Moss: The Making of an Icon, Harper Design, for providing me with a copy of this book for review. All opinions expressed are my own.