Kendall Jenner might have been the highest-paid model in 2020, but models like Kate Moss are still Queen with their own impressive net worths. Moss is worth $70 million all on her own, and she isn't slowing down.
When you think of some of the most famous supermodels in fashion history, Moss definitely has icon status, along with friends like Naomi Campbell, who's worth $80 million.
But while we constantly hear about the new up and coming models of the generation, no one can breach the star power that Moss has with her contemporaries. So let's take a look at how Moss is adding to her fortune and ditching that retirement.
She Tends To Make The List Of Highest-Paid Models
While Moss isn't always the highest-paid model on Forbes' list, she does appear on the list every year, and she isn't even in her prime anymore.
In 2016, she earned $5 million and was put at No. 13 on Forbes' list. The next year she earned $7 million and was again featured on the list, in part because of her work with Topshop and previous deals with Rimmel London.
Year after year her earnings hit the $5 million or higher mark. In 2014, she was named Britain's richest model, but that's really no surprise because she's been successful since she was 14 years old.
During her peak years, which were around the '90s, Moss earned about $10 million dollars, and as her decades-long career progresses she's picked up more and more collaborations. She's had campaigns with jewelry designer David Yurman, Stuart Weitzman, Burberry, to name a few.
In 2014, it was reported that Moss' main company, Tilly Church Ltd, was worth more than $12 million, and was waiting for another $6 million still owed to her. Her other company, Skate LLP, is also worth another $6 million.
The report, made by Sunday’s Observer, at the time, said that both companies were extremely successful, but added that her continued wealth mainly stemmed from the number of contracts she had, including her continued success with her line of clothing with Topshop, and her team up with Cara Delevingne for Burberry's fragrance My.
The Last Four Years Have Proved She Isn't Slowing Down
In 2016, she left Storm Models, the agency that made her famous, after 27 years. Her reasoning behind the move was that she wanted to explore things beyond fashion.
"I felt like I wanted to do things that were more than modeling. It didn’t matter how much we would try and do it together with them, I was always going to be the little Kate that they’ve known since I was 14," she told Business of Fashion. "It was like leaving home. I had to leave, and they were very understanding about it. They were like, ‘Yeah you’ve got to go now, we’ve done as much as we can do.’ I wanted to spread my wings."
"I didn’t realize how much it was going to change the way I feel because it is like taking responsibility for my own [business], whatever I do, instead of being the model who’s being sent on jobs to turn up and just be whatever they want you to be," Moss continued.
Shortly after leaving Storm, Moss founded her own talent management agency, Kate Moss Agency, which she calls her dream because she wants to "create stars." Her agency is now worth an estimated $2.3 million.
Along with this, she expanded her lifestyle brand by collaborating on new projects of her own. Getting to put her own name on a project was really important for her.
In 2019, it was like Moss had had a transformation, as pointed out by Vogue.
They wrote; "After all, she isn’t only a model but owns a modeling agency now and is dressing the elevated part of someone who makes decisions. Think: all-black everything, like a wide-leg pleated trouser that is polished or a velvet jumpsuit with a silk placket. She is glowing. It is almost as if she wants people to see the new her."
This year Moss once again graced the cover of Vogue for the 41st time, at the age of 46. She first appeared on the cover in 1993. Her campaigns and collaborations have yet to slow down as well.
The past year alone has seen her collaborate with brands like Jimmy Choo, Coach, Giorgio Armani.
More recently Moss has collaborated with Messika for a line of diamond jewelry. Moss told L'Officiel that the hardest part of designing the collection was, "taking inspiration from my vintage pieces and making them work in a modern environment."
That can almost explain Moss herself. After all these years, she embodies vintage while she continues to succeed in keeping relevance in the modern world of fashion. That's why she's an icon, and that's why people still celebrate her even though her career is nowhere near over.