Ask anyone to name their fave Kate Moss look, and the limit does not exist.
Some might go for her 90s Calvin Klein white tee and jeans combo or minimalist slip skirt and tank sets, while others might look to her ‘indie sleaze’ era, all drainpipe denim, vintage tea dresses, and the time she single-handedly shook up everything you thought you knew about festival dressing at Glastonbury in the mid-00s.
There are, however, a few true standouts from her style oeuvre that just about everyone can get behind: case in point, the shimmery, barely-there slip she wore to Elite Model Management’s 1993 ‘Look of the Year’ Awards, just as her career was going stratospheric.
Crafted from a silvery lamé material and taken from American designer Liza Bruce’s SS94 collection, when hit by the flash of the camera the semi-diaphanous dress was sent close to see-through. The resulting image, of a bare-faced, baby Moss beaming and plain black pants peeking through, has gone on to become one of the most iconic photographs of her ever, across her almost four-decade fashion reign.
Moss, who didn’t know the dress was so revealing until she saw the headlines the next day, later told Elle: “I didn’t think it looked that see-through when I was wearing it, but obviously it was. Had I known we would be talking about it 30 years later. Good night, good dress.”
Now, for fashion fans with a bit of cash they’ve been putting away for a rainy day, comes the chance to actually own this bit of fashion history, as an exact match of the Liza Bruce look goes up for sale. Listed by Kerry Taylor Auctions, as part of the London-based house’s Spring 2024 lot, the slip is estimated to bring in £200 to £300, which seems pretty low for such a legendary dress, regardless of it not being the one that Moss actually wore.
Also on the line-up within the auction is another item worn by the model, this time in the form of a t-shirt plastered with ‘God Save America’ across the chest. The top was part of a look she was photographed in for the cover of a 2004 issue of i-D, as styled by the late, great Judy Blame. Beyond these bonafide pieces of fashion history, there’s a whole lot of reasonably priced (or at least estimated) garments, running the gamut from 90s Westwood and Comme, to Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.
