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The Musée des Arts Decoratifs will hold a major retrospective of style icon Kate Moss's career in 2009.

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Museum director Beatrice Salmon said, "This is an occasion to ask a certain number of experts in image and communications to explain why and how Kate has become someone the whole world knows." 

Over her 19-year career as a model, Moss has starred in numerous high-profile and sometimes controversial advertising campaigns. Her waif-like frame has been a crucial factor in her success, which sparked much debate over the promotion of the "heroin chic" style in the early 1990s. In 2005, she was dropped from campaigns for Burberry, Chanel, and H&M after a tabloid scandal centered on photos of her taking cocaine. Moss's successful comeback a year later was seen by many as proof of the amorality of the fashion industry, which seemingly dissolved concerns over her supposed drug use. Forbes.com estimates her current earnings at around $7.5 million a year. 

Marc Quinn's solid-gold sculpture of the model in a yoga pose, titled Siren, will be unveiled in an unrelated exhibition at the British Museum on October 4.