By Kiesly Jameson
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is an English model. Arriving towards the end of the “supermodel era”, Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her to fashion icon status. She is known for her waifish figure, and role in size zero fashion. Moss has had her own clothing range, has been involved in musical projects, and is also a contributing fashion editor for British Vogue. In 2012, she came second on the Forbes top-earning models list, with estimated earnings of $9.2 million in one year. The accolades she has received for modelling include the 2013 British Fashion Awards acknowledging her contribution to fashion over 25 years, while Time named her one of the world’s 100 most influential people in 2007.
A subject of media scrutiny due to her partying lifestyle, Moss was involved in a drug use scandal in September 2005, which led to her being dropped from fashion campaigns. She was cleared of charges and soon resumed modelling. She has inspired cultural depictions including a £1.5m ($2.8m) 18 carat gold statue of her, sculpted in 2008 for a British Museum exhibition.
According to Forbes, her 2004–2005 earnings were $5 million and her 2005–2006 earnings were $8 million. In 2007, with estimated earnings of $9 million, Forbes magazine named her second on the list of the World’s 15 top-earning models list. She made her first appearance in the British women’s Sunday Times Rich List in 2007, where she was estimated to be worth £45 million. She ranked as the 99th richest woman in Britain. In the 2009 Rich List, she was ranked as the 1,348th richest person in the UK, with a net worth of £40 million.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Robert Service (poet) –
- Ethel Merman (singer & actress) –
- William Kennedy (American writer) –
- Marilyn Horne (opera singer) –
- Ronnie Milsap (singer) –
- Debbie Allen (actress, dancer, & choreographer) –
- Sade (singer) –
- Kate Moss (supermodel) –
- Aaliyah (singer) –
Died
- Carole Lombard (actress) –
- Ted Cassidy (actor) –
- Leland Stowe (journalist) –
- Andrew Wyeth (artist) –
- Carl Milton Smith (American country music singer) –
- Pauline Friedman Phillips, pen name Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby advice columnist) –
- Russell Johnson (actor) –
- Bob Uecker (baseball player & broadcaster) –
Events
- Ivan the Terrible crowned as first Russian czar –
- Prohibition went into effect in the U.S. –
- US Department of State issues a ban on travel to Cuba –
- Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians became the first tribe in the U.S. to issue tribal license plates –
- Operation Desert Storm launched –
- 121.5-pound blue catfish caught, Lake Texoma, Texas –
Weather
- Last day of “The Great Snowstorm” raged from Georgia to Maine: 30+ inches in New York, New Jersey, and New England, with unusually high tides –
- Avalanche in northern Idaho –
- -40 degrees F in Coggon, Iowa –
- An arctic blast dropped temperatures across the Midwest and Northeast: -50 degrees F at Big Black River, Maine; -46 degrees F at Embarrass, Minnesota; -39 F at Berlin, New Hampshire; and -38 F at Monticello, Iowa –
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