Article: The revival of Kate: Moss goes from strength to strength She's too short, has a lazy eye and wonky teeth - Her private life's a public mess, but her face covers everything from Vogue to Vanity Fair and sells anything from Versace to Topshop - She's the most mesmerising woman on the planet, says Sarah Sands

A year ago, I was having lunch with the editor of Vogue, Alexandra Shulman. The Daily Mirror pictures of Kate Moss, snorting cocaine through a pound(s)5 note in a London recording studio, had been running in the previous week and the overwhelming view was that the world's most famous model was ruined.

The revisionist press say it was the right-wing tabloids that went for her, but in fact it was everyone. Even the impeccably modern Salon internet magazine rushed out the headline: "The skeletal model's coke-fuelled plunge from grace has exposed ugly truths about the fashion industry."The day I saw Alexandra, fashion retailers H& M had announced: "After having evaluated the situation H&M has ...

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