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Kate beyond time: The Kate Moss Book

By CHARLES TAYLOR | January 8, 2013

Has there ever been a tougher emblem of style and beauty than Kate Moss? The most common thread, through picture after picture, style after style, is an astonishing confidence, an earned confidence. Moss looks like no setting is too posh to ever make her forget what she learned on the way up. Her look isn't regal. It's unshakable. That she's outlasted the moralists is cheering. I'm betting she's the last woman standing.

THE KATE MOSS BOOK | By Kate Moss, Fabien Baron, Jess Hallett, and Jefferson Hack | Rizzoli | 368 pages :: $85

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ARTICLES BY CHARLES TAYLOR

KATE BEYOND TIME: THE KATE MOSS BOOK | January 08, 2013
Almost all models who achieve some degree of fame find themselves blamed for whatever agenda their era's most vocal scold happens to be pushing.

INTERVIEW: NINA HOSS ON BARBARA | December 18, 2012
Quietly over the last 11 years, one of the strongest collaborations in contemporary cinema has been developing between the German director Christian Petzold and the actress he often chooses to star in his films, Nina Hoss. Petzold and Hoss's latest collaboration, Barbara , is their richest and finest film.

SLIDESHOW: THE CHEAP NEAR-THRILLS OF SEXYTIME | December 14, 2012
With porn so privately accessible now, we don't worry about the stigma attached to its consumption, the thought of someone pausing to peruse the art in front of an adult movie theater (hell, the thought of an adult movie theater) instead of just ducking in before being seen is almost touching.

BUNNY YEAGER’S NAKED AMBITION | October 05, 2012
Pin-up photography has served so many purposes — outlet for male desire; outlet for feminist ire; retro kitsch emblem — that it has barely been talked about as photography.

REVIEW: KATY PERRY: PART OF ME | July 03, 2012
Lady Gaga's every arch move seems designed to be parsed by graduate students convinced that mainstream America is scandalized every time someone plays with — all together now — gender.