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KATE MOSS, JULY 1993
Harper's BAZAAR - US
|October 2025
KATE MOSS WAS just 18 years old when she became the face of Calvin Klein's fragrance Obsession—a legendary campaign that would help set a new tone for fashion in the early 1990s.
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Her path to Obsession began almost incidentally, though, on a shoot for Harper's Bazaar. In 1992, Moss, then a rising star in her native U.K., was cast in a fashion story photographed by Patrick Demarchelier for editor in chief Liz Tilberis's first issue of Bazaar. With her slight stature and soulful gaze, Moss stood in stark contrast to the larger-than-life supermodels who were dominating fashion. But in front of the camera, she was captivating. At the time, Klein was searching for a way to reposition Obsession, wi
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