Kate Moss's first pout for sale as vintage snap goes on auction
A PHOTO of an “untarnished” Kate Moss – taken during her first sitting as a model – is expected to fetch £1,200 at auction.
Moss was famously spotted by talent agents in 1988 as she sat waiting for a flight at New York’s JFK Airport.
And this picture, taken later that year by photographer David Ross, shows the fresh-faced 14-year-old’s first
posing pout.
Ross, 47, described the Croydon-born model as “refreshingly honest” although Moss, 38, recently admitted
she hated her early pictures.
The gelatin silver print will be auctioned at Bloomsbury’s in Mayfair, London, on November 23, with a guide
price of £800 to £1,200.
Ross said: “Kate was a cool character. She seemed like a tough or resilient typical teenager, comfortably fronting
me up, perhaps covering up her nerves.
She was untarnished. A blank canvas, as other writers have put it
“I suppose what was refreshing was that she was honest. She wasn’t trying to prove anything or act above her station.
“She didn’t try to adopt a model attitude of self-absorption and superiority, which at the time was becoming public via
media sensation. She was untarnished. A blank canvas, as other writers have put it.”