Showing posts with label Kate Moss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kate Moss. Show all posts

12 August 2011

THE LAST OF THE ENGLISH ROSES

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Hamish Bowles paints the beautiful, personal picture of the wedding of the year in the September issue of US Vogue, accompanied by the as-yet-unseen photographs by Mario Testino. 'The Other Kate' this year was married in the public eye surrounded by dignitaries and dames, not friends. However our Mossy - the last of the English roses- was the star of an elaborate festival of love, in the company of high-spirited characters on her wedding day, and didn't we all wish we could have been there to see it.
Read Hamish Bowles' full account here. 


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"A week before the nuptials, Mario Testino is photographing Kate’s wedding portfolio (she has shifted her date from Saturday to Friday to accommodate his schedule, reasoning, with a model’s canny logic, that the ceremony will last minutes but the photographs will be forever)."Photobucket
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"The dress is spangled with tiny golden paillettes (Jude Law will ask him how on earth they are sewn on); in Galliano’s narrative it is as though the scullery maid had picked up milady’s fallen sequins to spangle her own dress. The skirts are symbolically licked with the beaded plumes of a mythical phoenix, “delicate and defiant, like Kate."
“She dared me to be John Galliano again,” the designer tells me. “I couldn’t pick up a pencil. It’s been my creative rehab.” PhotobucketI wanted it to be kind of dreamy and 1920s, when everything is soft-focus,” says Kate. “The Great Gatsby. The code name was GG for a while. That light and that kind of fun decadence. It’s rock-’n’-roll Great Gatsby!” Photobucket"When Kate appears in her Galliano finery, with her flotilla of bridesmaids and flower girls in their Bonpoint dresses, there are wolf whistles and applause in the church. “It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” says Bella Freud, “like she just walked through some fairy garden and came out clad in that. It’s exquisite.”Photobucket"Just before she sets off, Kate requests “a few words, a story to inspire her—she loves a bit of direction!” says Galliano. “I told her, ‘You have a secret—you are the last of the English roses—and when he lifts your veil he’s going to see your wanton past!’ "Photobucket"At a quarter to five Kate reappears, looking like a Pre-Raphaelite wood sprite in the diaphanous silk-tulle 1930s wedding dress that Katy England found for her bachelorette party, and proceeds to execute an exuberant tango. Everyone’s mother is still on the dance floor. (At her bachelorette weekend, “my mum was the last to leave,” says Kate, laughing. “The last man standing, my mum was!”)
At six in the morning a china-blue dawn rises over the fields that seem to be littered with exhausted revelers, like the aftermath of a medieval battle."Photobucket

6 June 2011

SHEEPSKIN TEARAWAY

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Kate Moss by Alasdair McLellan
i-D Winter 2010 The Back to The Future Issue

I dreamt last night I got chatting to Kate Moss backstage at Glastonbury. Then I started reading back issues of i-D in tribute to a great friend who just got a job there, saw this editorial and decided that this is how I am going to dress at the festival this year.
Fishnets, sheepskin and ideally, those sunglasses.

23 December 2010

WINTER KATE

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via Alice in Wardrobe Wonderland

I wish I felt as nonchalant about Christmas as Kate looks in this picture. Truth be told, I'm still yet to buy any presents, and am dreading ending up as flustered as a Christmas turkey hitting town at 9am on Christmas eve. Is anyone else in my sad little grinch boat? Or have you all been super organised?



7 December 2010

Oh So 90s...

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Black mesh, body-con, sheer fabrics, over-the-knee socks, pastel coloured hair, bold lipsticks; these are some of my favourite 90s style notes of the moment.

Born in 1990, I certainly wasn't sophisticated to enjoy them the first time round, favouring the leggings, baggy t-shirt and flashing trainers combo for the first decade of my life, although I was fairly on-trend with the high ponytail (see above left).

I sometimes wonder what the defining 'trends' of the noughties will be? What will be the ones we'll channel for costume parties of the future? It's a curious question, when I find the last decade seemed to be predominantly about reviving past influences from all across the 20th century, but I suppose everything looks different in hindsight.

22 October 2010

\\\ VOGUE PARIS MASKED BALL ///



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Jak&Jill, livingcool, The Fashion Spot


I resisted posting these earlier when the blogosphere was rampant with worship for Natalia Vodianova's supersonic presence in that lace dress, but now that I'm off to a 'birds of paradise' black tie party tomorrow, I'm trawling through them again for feathery inspiration.

22 September 2010

LFW S/S 11 CLOSURE



FAREWELL TO SARTORIAL HAVOC


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Another London Fashion Week gone. 6 days passed in a flash of vitamin waters, business cards and tote bags. A flash of paparazzi, amateur TV interviews and sweat under our A/W coats (bad move there.) This was my second season, and I felt I'm starting to find my feet in the fashion circus. I'm more than just a little excited by the S/S offering from London, and it seems everyone else is too; the press is just awash with praise for London's fashion 'coming of age', with even relatively new brands like Peter Pilotto and Louise Gray escalating forward from 'ones to watch' to established names in desirable design. Today's menswear shows brought the season to a stunning close, with J.W. Anderson and James Long's collections setting my heart on fire. I have so many great things to share with you over the next few days, weeks... who knows? My cup of inspired material doth runneth over.

Note: Having avoided shopping all week simply due to time constraints, sore feet and general exhaustion, I didn't begrudge myself a trip into Mint Vintage on Earlham St. earlier today in a break between shows. Whaddya know, I stumbled across the most insanely perfect biker jacket; thick black leather with elbow pads, a buckle belt and quilting, they just don't come finer than this. Turns out, admittedly to my horror, that bikers are the new 'Burberry' jacket for A/W. I portend millions of high street knock-offs and a sea of chunky bikers in my local Sainsbury's. I'd better get some wear out of it now, before it's too late.

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The BBC may have picked me to comment on the Burberry show for an upcoming documentary, but my friend Scott managed to fit in a chinwag with a real fashion insider; Miss Kate Moss herself. See Scott's exclusive interview for Vogue TV with Kate below.

13 June 2010

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A shot of Kate I was just entranced by in a copy of German Gala I was flicking through on the plane. I ripped it out and stuffed it in my holdall, which is now charity-shop bound and I unwrinkled this gem this morning. Saved.

Going to meet a friend for lunch, wish I could somehow wizard this ensemble onto myself in the next 2 minutes.

20 May 2010

KATE MOSS FOR TOPSHOP



I always get really excited about Kate Moss's Topshop collections from the ads, only to be disappointed in store by the low-quality materials and bad fits. To be honest, I think the only Kate Moss items I have are ones I picked up in the sale for about £5 each. In contrast, I was very impressed by both Christopher Kane collaborations, and have quite a few pieces that I justified spending £75 on. Likewise, one of my favourite dresses of all time is an Alice McCall for Topshop number which has lasted several years. 'The High Street' cashmongers have tried to make high design available to the masses through these collaborations, but they need to remember that it is not just the brand name that fascinates the consumer, but the intense quality too.

I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much about this Spring/Summer collection which is rich in floaty, sheer, ethereal pieces . I think the video ad below is testament to how great the clothes really are; you can barely see them for the over-exposure and with Kate frolicking around close to the camera like she's in some narcotic trance.

Shame...


10 May 2010

FESTIVAL SPLENDOUR PART ONE



In want of doing anything but revision, I have started compiling my moodboard of festival costumes. I'm thinking lots of gold polyester, black lace, Meadham Kirchoff veil/crown combos, electric blue eyeshadow, geometric jumpsuits, my finders-keepers motorcycling goggles... and ideally, a python.

Your turn...

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17 February 2010

New York A/W 2010 Collections




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'Granny's laundry basket' at Rodarte A/W 2010

I've been keeping an eye on the New York A/W collections being presented this week, and normally I would post some commentary, but there has really been nothing that has given me even a twinge of excitement, let alone blown me away. I find that American fashion tends to play it rather safe, and as a dedicated fan of all things bright and beautiful, sequinned, shimmery, theatrical and pretty much downright crazy, the sea of black and grey 'basics' that have been turning up on the catwalks of Alexander Wang, RVCA et al just don't get me buzzing.

Halston (designed by Marios Schwab) presented some jazzy jewel-tone dresses, but the funny wrap-styles seemed a bit homemade, and not a patch on the Jerry Hall-esque glamazon looks the label is so infamous for. Some journalists have been raving about the Rodarte collection, but I found the haphazard selection of florals and wooly bits a bit random, as if the models had been dunked into granny's laundry basket, and then hurriedly pushed out onto the catwalk. Zac Posen showed some very glamorous 70s socialite pieces in gorgeous purples and amber yellows, and the deep raspberry pink velvet dresses were just delicious. As a purveyor of personal style over high-fashion, I'd say his was the collection that came closest to being something I'd buy into. (In my dreams ha.)

It has been a while since I got excited about an entire season of fashion offerings. I think the last time was the A/W 2006 collections (that glam-rock Gucci collection I will never forget). The whole international fashion tribe seems to have sold out to Vogue Paris Editorial Chic ...all black leather, spike heels, architectural shoulders and body-con. Clogs at Chanel were a huge controversy this season (they won't possibly go with my PVC leggings!) Designers like Alexander McQueen (Rest in Peace) are few and far between, coming up with something completely off the wall and simply crazy-beautiful every season.

Let's hope we see more promising inspirations from London and Paris.

So, on the theme of New York, I leave you with a long lost editorial which I just adore. Fresh, spontaneous, fun Kate, and not a PVC legging in sight!


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1 February 2010

[Genius Genius]



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"Models are just human clothes rails...It's their job to be thin."

I think we've found the solution to the whole debate here!

7 November 2009

Shaggy

I'm itching to get my hands on a shaggy black coat like Kate's. She narrowly escaped a bloody- pinting from hysterical PETA followers screaming "gorilla killer," but the jacket is in fact goat hair. There's a pretty good dead ringer in French Connection that I saw today, and for the interest of those ethically inclined, its neither goat nor gorilla.

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4 November 2009

The Girl on a Motorcycle

Leeds is killing me! I'm knackered!
So going home for 5 days of self-imposed exile and R&R.
No Absente, No cigarettes.
Just films, fairylights and lots of earl grey tea in an old chipped mug.
A film in particular I've been wanting to dig out for a while is the very much underrated Girl on a Motorcycle ,starring a very fresh, very sexy 20-year old Marianne Faithful frolicking down the Autobahn on a Harley in a leather jumpsuit.
Watch this film, and you'll understand what was going on in Mick Jagger's mind when he wrote You can't always get what you want...

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Looking at this Kate Moss for Vogue Paris shoot from ------, you can't help but be damn sure that Marianne had something to do with it. I'm absolutely hopeless behind the wheel, but perhaps I could get a bike instead...?

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