Revisit 24 Wild, Candid ’90s Images of a Young Kate Moss Backstage

It’s October 4, 1992, in Milan. A young Kate Moss, then just 18 years old, is in the midst of her first runway season. Her debut in Milan is for Dolce Gabbana’s spring/summer 1993 collection—a show replete with ’70s-style bell bottoms, colourful patchwork suits, bug-eye shades, and wild, feather-adorned hats. It’s a show that’ll go down in history for its blend of hippie and grunge influences, as well as the fact that it elevated Moss from fashion darling to megawatt supermodel. (Before this, she’d mostly done campaigns.) “I think I’d just met Naomi and Christy,” Moss told Vogue of the Dolce Gabbana show. “That was the beginning of years of fashion fun.”

Thirty-three years later, one of the world’s most famous models and fashion icons has walked hundreds, possibly thousands of runways. Her hair has been teased into endless shapes, her makeup done in every color on the palette, her five-foot-seven body adorned in fabrics that have gone on to shape the rest of our wardrobes.

And so, what better way to celebrate the supermodel’s 52nd birthday than by taking a look at her best backstage moments from the ’90s? Happy birthday, Kate Moss!