Sex, Drugs, and Kate Moss: Secrets of a Wild Supermodel

She embodied heroin chic, and her vodka-chugging prowess earned her the nickname ‘The Tank.’ A new book reveals the supermodel’s ravenous excesses.
Talk to any fashion industry veteran, and the stories of Kate Moss’s wild ways are legendary. Sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll have always been an integral part of her story. Throughout her career, tales of wild behavior, random sexual encounters and copious drug use have orbited her waifish figure.

 But the paranoid, insular world of fashion has always been careful about protecting its most lucrative stars—and Kate, who can make or break a brand with one look, is fashion’s greatest cash cow. Even after she was busted snorting cocaine in a record studio, perhaps it was no surprise that most of Kate’s wild life remained the stuff of urban legend rather than documented fact.
Until now.

 Kate’s unparalleled appetite for sex, drugs and alcohol is one of the central threads of fashion writer Maureen Callahan’s new book, Champagne Supernovas, a juicy and gossipy account of the '90s fashion scene (the phrase, also used in the Oasis song, refers to a drink: a glass of champagne, the rim of which had been dipped in cocaine).
Callahan tells her story through the intertwining narratives of three of the era’s biggest stars—Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs and Alexander McQueen—who, she convincingly argues, changed the face of fashion and culture forever.
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