Kate Moss’s summer style formula is the perfect alchemy of ballet flats, tailored shorts, low-slung belts and bohemian scarves. In St Tropez, she gives good yacht-to-jetty fashion in Kalita maxis and Ancient Greek Sandals. At Glastonbury, it’s Hunters and vintage waistcoats all the way. While in London, she leans on Equipment and Saint Laurent blazers and Hermès Birkins for low-key daywear while lunching with Lila at the Connaught.
“People often talk about the idea of ‘mystery’ with Kate, but, personally, I believe that in many ways her appeal is straightforward,” explains her friend Edward Enninful. “It hits you right between the eyes every time you look at her, and certainly when you’re with her.”
Moss is innately chic, but her style is accessible, as demonstrated by any wannabe rock chick who shimmied their way into a pair of Topshop drainpipe jeans and Repetto pumps in the spirit of early Noughties Kate. Or marched through the mud in wellies and cut-offs at Worthy Farm, in the hope of evoking those inimitable pap shots of her and Pete by the Pyramid stage.
As summer 2022’s trends – such as miniskirts and millennium-bug tops – start filtering down our feeds on new-age supermodels, refer to the below pictures of classic Kate before marching your way to the park in monster platforms. “She has the best taste,” continues Enninful. Here, 21 pictures to prove it.
2007
Name another human who could look this chic holding a tinny.
2019
A case for Kate’s Saint Laurent and Repetto staples if ever there was one.