Kate Moss To Receive British Fashion Award

Kate Moss will receive a Special Recognition award at the British Fashion Awards next week to acknowledge her contribution to the fashion industry during her 25-year career.

The world's most prolific Vogue cover girl, with 34 covers for British Vogue alone (she hasn't gone a year without a cover since 1993), Moss recently assumed a role as our contributing fashion editor.Since her discovery by Sarah Doukas of Storm Models in 1987, Moss has graced catwalks and advertising campaigns for the world's biggest brands, including Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, Chanel and Louis Vuitton.

She has been involved in some of the biggest moments in fashion - from appearing as a hologram on the catwalk for Alexander McQueen, to starring in a fashion show watched by the world at the London Olympics closing ceremony - and her beauty has been immortalised by the art world, in a sculpture by Marc Quinn, and on canvas - naked and pregnant - by Lucien Freud.

Kate Moss

One of the most visible impacts of her influence on fashion has been through the adoration of her rock-inspired, low-maintenance signature style,which has become synonymous with British fashion, and has been widely copied over the years. Skinny jeans, low-slung belts and vintage dresses became Moss trademarks, and were all reinterpreted for her hugely successful Kate Moss for Topshop collection, which launched in 2007 and will return next year.

The supermodel will collect the prize at the annual ceremony at the London Coliseum - which will be hosted by comedian Jack Whitehall, after David Walliams was forced to withdraw due to ill health. The night's other Special Recognition award will be presented to journalist Suzy Menkes.