If there's one thing that Kate Moss and I agree on, it's what she said in her interview in Harper's Bazaar this month. The super model and cover star revealed that she will be appearing in an exhibition at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris (Museum of the Decorative Arts for those who couldn't decipher) next year. Following on from the revelation, she commented that: "I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf."
There have been reports, criticisms and outrage that Moss had very little creative input into her Topshop ranges, that she simply turned up and nodded at sketches and patterns already drawn and sourced for her, and for me, that does not a fashion range make. We want to know what her processes were, whether her inspiration came from a particular photo shoot or one of her drug-fuelled club nights, exciting inspiration, NOT something drummed up from someone on the Arcadia pay roll.
The thing is, it angers me some what that models, TV personalities etc 'fall' into the fashion market so easily when there is such huge talent coming out of St. Martins, London College of Fashion and the like that deserve so much attention but get almost none. And even then it's a struggle for them. Isn't the definition of a model someone who displays clothes rather than someone who creates them? Fashion designers design, models strut and survive off lettuce. That's what's always happened until now.
People buy into it, yes, because they like saying they have a Kate Moss this and a Kate Moss that, but it's not for me. Sorry Mossy.
Having said that, I think these shots are the best I've seen of the super model for a long time.
