€12K Man U programme
1992 shots released as tribute for her birthday
A PROGRAMME from the Man United game which was abandoned after the Munich air disaster has sold for nearly €12,000.
Wolves were due at Old Trafford on February 8, 1958, two days after the plane crash killed eight United players. Only a few programmes remain.
Man United fan Peter Jackson, 67, sold his yesterday for €11,440.
Amanda Butler, from Hanson Ross auctioneers in Royston, Herts, said: “We are delighted.”
Wrapped in a white sheet and staring straight down the lens, an 18-year-old Kate Moss shows the poise and attitude that were about to make her an iconic 1990s figure.
The shot is from a contact sheet released from the archive of fashion photographer Terry O’neill to mark Kate’s 50th birthday on Tuesday.
Terry, who died in 2019, took the pictures just months before Kate became a modelling phenomenon when she appeared alongside Mark Wahlberg in adverts for Calvin Klein.
While decades have passed since Kate, a freshfaced teenager from Croydon,
South London, burst into the spotlight, the camera – and her fans – still love her. And Kate is not letting her age hold her back, saying: “I’m not thinking about it. I do not feel 50.”
The daughter of a barmaid and an airline worker, Kate was scouted at an airport, aged 14.
Two years later, she was in The Face magazine, and two years after that she was working with Terry, before hitting the big time with the Calvin Klein ads.
She became the new face of the 1990s, the waif alternative to curvier supermodels such as Cindy Crawford and Elle Macpherson, and made waves with her saying: “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”
She was the darling of early 1990s grunge, the heroine of mid-90s “heroin chic”, the queen-pin of the Cool Britannia
Britpop scene, and a pioneer of the noughties’ festival-loving boho era. She appeared in music videos for Elton John, Elvis, and the White Stripes among others.
And her devotion to the little black dress – LBD – first popularised by Coco Chanel in the 1920s helped cement it as a fashion must-have for a new generation of women.
There was a small bump in Kate’s success in 2005, when the Mirror pictured her appearing to snort a white powder.
But she soon sailed through the “Cocaine Kate” scandal and has worked for everyone from Alexander Mcqueen, Chanel and Burberry, to Virgin and Rimmel London, and now Diet Coke.
In 2022, she launched her own modelling agency and lifestyle site, called Cosmoss.
Kate has had some high-profile boyfriends, such as actor Johnny Depp, musician Pete Doherty and magazine boss Jefferson Hack. She married Kills guitarist Jamie Hince in 2011, but they divorced in 2016.
She has since been in a relationship with German aristocrat and photographer Count Nikolai von Bismarck.
Kate’s daughter with Hack, Lila Grace, is now 21 and, like her mother, is a model.
Kate once said: “I want to live my life in a way that when I get really old, I look back at my life and say, ‘Aaah, I lived it, not survived it’.”
Thanks to the likes of Terry, she has the pictures to prove it.