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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...Inside-World-8217-s-Most-Famous-Wardrobe.html
The making of Moss: Inside the World’s Most Famous Wardrobe
By Angela Buttolph
Last updated at 9:19 PM on 21st September 2008
How does a short, flat-chested, bandy-legged schoolgirl (who buys her clothes for 10p at jumble sales) become lauded as the most stylish woman on the planet? A fascinating new book reveals how Kate Moss became an accidental icon
Many extraordinary stories have ordinary beginnings. And life doesn’t get more ordinary than British suburbia. Croydon, in South London, is a bleak concrete tangle of tower blocks, grey office complexes, shopping centres and endless roundabouts. Not exactly the natural environment in which to nurture a world-class style icon. But it was here that Katherine Ann Moss was born on 16 January 1974.
Accidental icon: Kate Moss modelling her latest collection for Topshop
Of course, everything about Kate Moss defies logic: the global trendsetter who stays at the cutting edge of fashion by wearing vintage clothes from decades ago; the style icon as revered for her scruffy 'undone glamour' as she is for her red carpet sophistication; the short, flat-chested, gawky schoolgirl with bandy legs and jagged teeth who became more sought-after than the ultra-beautiful, curvaceous supermodels.
Yet, according to Kate, Croydon, where she grew up on a leafy street of pretty semi-detached houses, was the perfect place to become style-savvy: 'That’s the way suburban people are; they’re more fashion-conscious, and they’re more trendy,' she once said. For the affluent, middle-class teenagers growing up in boom-time 1980s Britain, the ultimate look to aspire to was flashy designer labels – and in Croydon, one label in particular: Vivienne Westwood.
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Kate’s style ideas were inspired by the older kids at school – and one, in particular, would play a key part in influencing her look, working alongside her in her career and becoming a best friend throughout her life.
Future style icon: Kate Moss as a child in the 1970's
Hair stylist James Brown’s younger sister Marina was in Kate’s class at Riddlesdown High School – and even at school James recalls that Kate stood out. 'Kate hung out with the coolest kids.'
Kate’s parents, Linda and Peter, split when she was in her early teens and Kate went to live with her mother, while her brother, Nick, went to live with their father. After that, everything changed. 'Literally, my parents let me do whatever I wanted. I was smoking when I was thirteen in front of my parents, and drinking,' says Kate. 'I’d have parties where I’d come in at three in the morning.'
Kate was also better travelled than her peers, thanks to her father’s job as a travel executive. And it was in the States, in the summer of 1988, that something happened which would change Kate’s life forever – and the course of fashion history.
It’s now become legend that London model scout Sarah Doukas, who had recently started a new agency, Storm, spotted Kate sitting on her suitcase at JFK airport, while returning from a Caribbean trip with her father and brother. They made an appointment to meet the following week in London, and Kate was signed on the spot.
Kate had not been on the books of Storm for long when she met model-turned photographer Corinne Day, who was trying to establish her credentials as a photographer shooting fashion in a younger, simpler way, and who also had a mania for collecting second-hand clothes.
Needing to shoot fashion for The Face, but not having many contacts to borrow the necessary samples, Day improvised: 'We’d go to markets and second-hand shops and we’d just make up fashion that we liked.'
The pair teemed up with a stylist called Melanie Ward, and quickly they all became close friends.
Vintage chic: Kate Moss trawling a market stall in Paris in 1993
The age of the supermodels: Kate with Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista
'Second hand clothes were a very critical thing for them,' says designer Liza Bruce, who worked with the three women in the early 1990s. 'The thing about thrift shops is that you see everything jumbled together, and it’s that juxtaposition (that is so inspiring); you see things that are hidden, that jump out at you. Those are very stimulating things.'
'It wasn’t about (new) designer clothes in those days because they weren’t really making things that we wanted to wear,' says Melanie Ward. But at the time, Portobello market, one of their hunting grounds, had a treasure chest all of its own in terms of clothes by 1960s designers Biba or Ossie Clark.
And because the clothes were easy come, easy go, the girls developed a carefree attitude to grooming – and a healthy disrespect and spontaneity towards the clothes.
'We weren’t afraid to just chop at things with scissors,' says Ward, referring to their endless efforts at customising. 'Our look was always effortless: a little bit “she’s come undone”. There were no boundaries between day and night or expensive and cheap.'
Kate learned that it was cooler by far to be the real deal; to be the girl in the original 1970s tour band T-shirt, found screwed up in a cardboard box of stuff on a stall, that a great wardrobe didn’t need to cost a fortune, but that it did need to be hunted down. None of her new friends shopped on the high street – and despite the hours spent trawling the market stalls, none wanted to look like they were trying too hard.
THAT dress: Kate showed an innate confidence in a transparent Liza Bruce dress in 1993 at an Elite model party
Although this was the age when supermodels like Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington reigned supreme, some designers like Calvin Klein and Dolce & Gabbana were searching for a fresher image – and found it in Kate, still only seventeen with a tiny UK size 6 frame.
She did a shoot with Steven Meisel for Dolce & Gabbana – and it opened the whole world of designer clothes to her.
Hairstylist Michael Boadi recalls bumping into Kate in the west London neighbourhood where both then lived: 'She was like, “I did the Dolce campaign, and there was this genius pair of shoes and I’m gonna get them and I’m going to put them with this and that...” And that’s how it started; that’s when the (designer) labels kicked in. That’s when she started getting into dressing up; proper high fashion.'
By now, Kate’s vintage tastes were heading up-market, with help from some of the best vintage dealers in the business, like Steinberg & Tolkein, who opened their legendary King’s Road store in 1992.
Virginia Bates, of Virginia Vintage Clothing, London, says: 'Kate wore the cream slip dress, before she really got into “vintage” as I call it… It looked quite unusual at the time. Now you can buy these little slips from Topshop or wherever, but nobody else was doing it back then. It was quite outrageous really...'
One of the most famous images of Kate from this era is wearing a silver transparent slip dress to the Elite Model Agency Party for the Look of the Year contest in 1993. It was in many ways a perfect amalgam of many influences in her life then.
According to Liza Bruce, who designed the dress, Melanie Ward had originally asked her to make it copying an antique gold fabric she’d discovered. Then Corinne Day had asked her to copy it in silver for a shoot with Linda Evangelista in British Vogue. At the time, Corinne, Melanie and Kate were girlfriends sharing a flat – and each other’s wardrobes. So Kate wore the dress to the party before it was eventually returned to Liza Bruce.
'Underwear as outerwear was the mood of the moment,' recalls Liza Bruce. 'The dress did come out more transparent in the picture (than in reality), which is maybe why she had the confidence to wear it… It wasn’t a come on… it was just “this is me”. Her body language was so much like a kid’s'.
Kate’s love of dressing up found a whole new showcase when she met actor Johnny Depp in Manhattan in February 1994. The poster-girl for grunge developed a taste for luxury.
She was also now becoming part of a different scene: a roll-call of beautiful people that had included Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
Kate with Johnny Depp in 1994 in a silver beaded vintage flapper dress once owned by Errol Flynn¿s wife, silent movie star Lily Damita
For her red-carpet wardrobe, Kate went straight to the source of Tinseltown’s glamour heyday, the vintage dealers of New York and LA, who understood about fashion that stands the test of time.
Rita Watnik, the formidable owner of Los Angeles vintage store Lie et Cie, would pay a key role in Kate’s Hollywood transformation. And it would be Watnik who, years later, would present Kate with one of her most iconic dresses: the frothy lemon-yellow prom dress.
'I got more glamorous and a bit more sophisticated,' says Kate of her time with Depp, 'but I wanted to dress up anyway. I liked dressing up before that, but I didn’t really have anywhere to go. I didn’t go to premieres then.'
Her new look was in evidence when she hit the red carpet for the Ed Wood Premiere in New York in September 1994, every inch the young starlet in a silver beaded vintage flapper’s dress once owned by Errol Flynn’s wife silent movie star Lily Damita.
Kate wore the Hollywood heirloom with a light touch; her hair casually pulled back, carrying a tiny purse on a chain, with white Manolo Blahnik Mary Janes and a Tiffany diamond necklace Johnny had given her.
The couple seemed to lead a fairytale existence, holidaying in the Caribbean and Aspen. Kate, now in her twenties, didn’t have an official stylist, but she did have help.
Firm friends: Hair stylist James Brown with Kate Moss. The pair have known each other since their Croydon schooldays
The making of Moss: Inside the World’s Most Famous Wardrobe
By Angela Buttolph
Last updated at 9:19 PM on 21st September 2008
How does a short, flat-chested, bandy-legged schoolgirl (who buys her clothes for 10p at jumble sales) become lauded as the most stylish woman on the planet? A fascinating new book reveals how Kate Moss became an accidental icon
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Add to My Stories Many extraordinary stories have ordinary beginnings. And life doesn’t get more ordinary than British suburbia. Croydon, in South London, is a bleak concrete tangle of tower blocks, grey office complexes, shopping centres and endless roundabouts. Not exactly the natural environment in which to nurture a world-class style icon. But it was here that Katherine Ann Moss was born on 16 January 1974.
Of course, everything about Kate Moss defies logic: the global trendsetter who stays at the cutting edge of fashion by wearing vintage clothes from decades ago; the style icon as revered for her scruffy 'undone glamour' as she is for her red carpet sophistication; the short, flat-chested, gawky schoolgirl with bandy legs and jagged teeth who became more sought-after than the ultra-beautiful, curvaceous supermodels.
Yet, according to Kate, Croydon, where she grew up on a leafy street of pretty semi-detached houses, was the perfect place to become style-savvy: 'That’s the way suburban people are; they’re more fashion-conscious, and they’re more trendy,' she once said. For the affluent, middle-class teenagers growing up in boom-time 1980s Britain, the ultimate look to aspire to was flashy designer labels – and in Croydon, one label in particular: Vivienne Westwood.
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Kate’s style ideas were inspired by the older kids at school – and one, in particular, would play a key part in influencing her look, working alongside her in her career and becoming a best friend throughout her life.
Hair stylist James Brown’s younger sister Marina was in Kate’s class at Riddlesdown High School – and even at school James recalls that Kate stood out. 'Kate hung out with the coolest kids.'
Kate’s parents, Linda and Peter, split when she was in her early teens and Kate went to live with her mother, while her brother, Nick, went to live with their father. After that, everything changed. 'Literally, my parents let me do whatever I wanted. I was smoking when I was thirteen in front of my parents, and drinking,' says Kate. 'I’d have parties where I’d come in at three in the morning.'
Kate was also better travelled than her peers, thanks to her father’s job as a travel executive. And it was in the States, in the summer of 1988, that something happened which would change Kate’s life forever – and the course of fashion history.
It’s now become legend that London model scout Sarah Doukas, who had recently started a new agency, Storm, spotted Kate sitting on her suitcase at JFK airport, while returning from a Caribbean trip with her father and brother. They made an appointment to meet the following week in London, and Kate was signed on the spot.
Kate had not been on the books of Storm for long when she met model-turned photographer Corinne Day, who was trying to establish her credentials as a photographer shooting fashion in a younger, simpler way, and who also had a mania for collecting second-hand clothes.
Needing to shoot fashion for The Face, but not having many contacts to borrow the necessary samples, Day improvised: 'We’d go to markets and second-hand shops and we’d just make up fashion that we liked.'
The pair teemed up with a stylist called Melanie Ward, and quickly they all became close friends.
'Second hand clothes were a very critical thing for them,' says designer Liza Bruce, who worked with the three women in the early 1990s. 'The thing about thrift shops is that you see everything jumbled together, and it’s that juxtaposition (that is so inspiring); you see things that are hidden, that jump out at you. Those are very stimulating things.'
'It wasn’t about (new) designer clothes in those days because they weren’t really making things that we wanted to wear,' says Melanie Ward. But at the time, Portobello market, one of their hunting grounds, had a treasure chest all of its own in terms of clothes by 1960s designers Biba or Ossie Clark.
And because the clothes were easy come, easy go, the girls developed a carefree attitude to grooming – and a healthy disrespect and spontaneity towards the clothes.
'We weren’t afraid to just chop at things with scissors,' says Ward, referring to their endless efforts at customising. 'Our look was always effortless: a little bit “she’s come undone”. There were no boundaries between day and night or expensive and cheap.'
Kate learned that it was cooler by far to be the real deal; to be the girl in the original 1970s tour band T-shirt, found screwed up in a cardboard box of stuff on a stall, that a great wardrobe didn’t need to cost a fortune, but that it did need to be hunted down. None of her new friends shopped on the high street – and despite the hours spent trawling the market stalls, none wanted to look like they were trying too hard.
Although this was the age when supermodels like Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington reigned supreme, some designers like Calvin Klein and Dolce & Gabbana were searching for a fresher image – and found it in Kate, still only seventeen with a tiny UK size 6 frame.
She did a shoot with Steven Meisel for Dolce & Gabbana – and it opened the whole world of designer clothes to her.
Hairstylist Michael Boadi recalls bumping into Kate in the west London neighbourhood where both then lived: 'She was like, “I did the Dolce campaign, and there was this genius pair of shoes and I’m gonna get them and I’m going to put them with this and that...” And that’s how it started; that’s when the (designer) labels kicked in. That’s when she started getting into dressing up; proper high fashion.'
By now, Kate’s vintage tastes were heading up-market, with help from some of the best vintage dealers in the business, like Steinberg & Tolkein, who opened their legendary King’s Road store in 1992.
Virginia Bates, of Virginia Vintage Clothing, London, says: 'Kate wore the cream slip dress, before she really got into “vintage” as I call it… It looked quite unusual at the time. Now you can buy these little slips from Topshop or wherever, but nobody else was doing it back then. It was quite outrageous really...'
One of the most famous images of Kate from this era is wearing a silver transparent slip dress to the Elite Model Agency Party for the Look of the Year contest in 1993. It was in many ways a perfect amalgam of many influences in her life then.
According to Liza Bruce, who designed the dress, Melanie Ward had originally asked her to make it copying an antique gold fabric she’d discovered. Then Corinne Day had asked her to copy it in silver for a shoot with Linda Evangelista in British Vogue. At the time, Corinne, Melanie and Kate were girlfriends sharing a flat – and each other’s wardrobes. So Kate wore the dress to the party before it was eventually returned to Liza Bruce.
'Underwear as outerwear was the mood of the moment,' recalls Liza Bruce. 'The dress did come out more transparent in the picture (than in reality), which is maybe why she had the confidence to wear it… It wasn’t a come on… it was just “this is me”. Her body language was so much like a kid’s'.
Kate’s love of dressing up found a whole new showcase when she met actor Johnny Depp in Manhattan in February 1994. The poster-girl for grunge developed a taste for luxury.
She was also now becoming part of a different scene: a roll-call of beautiful people that had included Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
For her red-carpet wardrobe, Kate went straight to the source of Tinseltown’s glamour heyday, the vintage dealers of New York and LA, who understood about fashion that stands the test of time.
Rita Watnik, the formidable owner of Los Angeles vintage store Lie et Cie, would pay a key role in Kate’s Hollywood transformation. And it would be Watnik who, years later, would present Kate with one of her most iconic dresses: the frothy lemon-yellow prom dress.
'I got more glamorous and a bit more sophisticated,' says Kate of her time with Depp, 'but I wanted to dress up anyway. I liked dressing up before that, but I didn’t really have anywhere to go. I didn’t go to premieres then.'
Her new look was in evidence when she hit the red carpet for the Ed Wood Premiere in New York in September 1994, every inch the young starlet in a silver beaded vintage flapper’s dress once owned by Errol Flynn’s wife silent movie star Lily Damita.
Kate wore the Hollywood heirloom with a light touch; her hair casually pulled back, carrying a tiny purse on a chain, with white Manolo Blahnik Mary Janes and a Tiffany diamond necklace Johnny had given her.
The couple seemed to lead a fairytale existence, holidaying in the Caribbean and Aspen. Kate, now in her twenties, didn’t have an official stylist, but she did have help.
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