Kate Moss launches own talent agency and says ‘I want to create stars’
Supermodel recruited aged 14 still has lucrative career nearly three decades after starting out in fashion, and move into talent management could show she has a head for figures, not just a figure to die for
Supermodel Kate Moss is launching her own talent agency, months after leaving the one that recruited her aged 14, the Business of Fashion website reported as London Fashion Week drew to a close on Tuesday.
“I don’t really want pretty people, I want people that want to sing and dance and act. I want to create stars,” the 42-year-old was quoted as saying in a rare interview after her departure from Storm Models.
“I want to focus more on managing people’s careers than just a modelling agency,” said Moss, whose agency has a website, Twitter and Instagram presence despite her own well-known avoidance of social media.
London-born Moss, the daughter of a barmaid and a travel agent, was recruited in a chance encounter at a New York airport and is one of the few supermodels from the 1990s who still has a lucrative career.
In the interview published on Monday, Business of Fashion said the model’s eponymously named Kate Moss Agency “could transform her from supermodel to budding businesswoman”.