God Save the Troublemaker

Say what you want about Kate Moss. That she’s a coked-up mess who’s made questionable choices in bathrooms across several continents. That Pete Doherty—disintegrating publicly from heartbreak, in real time, for an audience—somehow made her life look worse by association. That her body doesn’t match whatever supermodel standard she was supposed to embody. Fine. Say all of it.

Look past the tabloid noise and the celebrity soap opera, though, and she’s still one of the most genuinely exciting women of her era. Craig McDean’s 2002 shoot for i-D—the whole thing built around "God Save The Queen"—is evidence enough. Real photographs. The kind that don’t need context or a caption to land. Maybe I just have a weakness for small troublemakers. Saggy tits and all.