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Since being discovered in a New York airport at the age of 14, Kate Moss has enjoyed an illustrious modeling career.
However, despite her success, the fashion star from Croydon, south London, to this day harbors the emotional scars of being forced to pose nude in a photo shoot for the cover of The Face magazine. which was taken by the late photographer Corinne Day in 1990.
“I still, even after that session, cried a lot about taking my clothes off with her (Day),” Moss, 50, says. “I really didn’t want to do it.”
She explains: “At the time it was Corinne, me, Drew Jarett, the hairstylist, and Dick Page, the makeup artist. So I’d make Drew turn around because he was straight and I’d say, ‘I’m not going to let him look at me.’ I was very shy.
‘I was 15 and appearing topless in a magazine, and I was still at school. Luckily, The Face wasn’t sold in Croydon, so I don’t think anyone saw it, but they did hear about it.
Since being discovered in a New York airport at the age of 14, Kate Moss has enjoyed an illustrious modeling career.
Despite her success, the fashion star from Croydon, south London, to this day harbors the emotional scars of being forced to pose nude in a photo shoot for the cover of The Face magazine.
Lila Moss walks the runway during the 2024 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show
Moss appears naked in the photograph, protecting her modesty with her hands and a sun hat. In another, she appears topless with a feather headdress.
“From a very young age I started taking topless photographs and I was very aware that I had a mole on my right breast and I hated it so much that I cried,” she says on her friend Bella Freud’s podcast, Fashion Neurosis. .
“I never wanted to be topless. I was crying and I had to get over it because the photographer (Day) was telling me, ‘If you don’t do this, I won’t hire you for the next job,’ so I had to get over it.’
Moss’ daughter Lila, 22, followed in her footsteps into modeling and signed with her own agency.
While Moss’ photo shoot with Day, who died of a brain tumor in 2010, remains a “painful memory” for her, she admits the fashion industry has supported her through her difficult times.
She alludes to the backlash she received in 2005 after the publication of photographs that, a newspaper claimed, showed her snorting drugs in a studio where her then-boyfriend Pete Doherty was performing.
Branding ‘Cocaine Kate’, Moss lost her £1 million contract with the H&M chain and enrolled in a rehabilitation clinic.
“When I had a little scandal, I got a lot of support from people in the fashion business,” she says. ‘(As) soon as I could go back to work, everyone signed me up. They told me, ‘No, we’re not going to let them cancel you.’
Gary Lineker’s new adventure
It looks like Gary Lineker continues to reduce his workload. The outgoing presenter of the BBC’s Match Of The Day program has put his production company Goalhanger Films into voluntary liquidation.
Lineker and co-owner Anthony Pastor decided to close their business at the end of last month and their application was lodged at Companies House yesterday. The company had £422,100 in retained earnings as of 2022.
It looks like Gary Lineker continues to reduce his workload
The Saint Paul VAT scheme
What is happening at St Paul’s, the exclusive London school where boarding fees rise to £47,000 a year?
I am told that, displaying a skill befitting his superb academic record, he has turned adversity into advantage by claiming £30m in VAT back from the taxpayer, a ploy made possible by the Budget, which imposed a tax on school fees. St Paul’s has splashed out in recent years, spending £114 million on a refurbishment in the first phase of its “renewal campaign”. But when asked if it had already spent £150m and could therefore recover £30m in VAT, the school was silent.
Felipe’s confidant meets the new duke
She was not born into aristocracy, but Countess Mountbatten of Burma has always displayed an “old school” stoicism, particularly when her husband Norton Knatchbull left her for the glamorous Genie McWeeney, widow of baronet Sir Nicholas Nuttall, in 2010. She returned four years later. .
This week, Penny, as she is known to her friends, welcomed the Duke of Edinburgh to Hampshire. Her bond with the previous duke, her carriage companion Prince Philip, was summed up by Natascha McElhone, who plays the countess in The Crown, as “a fierce friendship”.
The Duke of Edinburgh (left) is greeted by Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma.
Buffett will retire with a ballad
Warren Buffett has recorded a duet of My Way with Paul Anka that will be his swan song. The 94-year-old American businessman, whose fortune is estimated at $116 billion, is a friend of the singer Anka and asked her for a special favor. Buffett asked singer Diana to perform with him on a version of Frank Sinatra’s ballad. “He’ll play it at his funeral,” says Anka.
Craig Revel Horwood’s debut album
Strictly by popular demand? Craig Revel Horwood claims he recorded his debut album, Revelations: Songs Boys Don’t Sing, due to fan requests. “Basically people were asking me, ‘Do you have an album we can listen to?’ says the Strictly Come Dancing judge. “And I said, ‘Actually, no, I don’t.'” His only other recordings are a 1980s advert for Kentucky Fried Chicken and one for Macleans toothpaste.
Poppy is really ready for the runway! unusual airport couture
The model, 38, was spotted in a departure lounge in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday night still wearing an embellished dress.
Similar dresses from the designer sell for more than £5,000
What do you wear to the airport? Your favorite pair of jeans or perhaps your most comfortable sweatpants?
Poppy Delevingne, on the other hand, prefers to travel in style.
The model, 38, was spotted in a departure lounge in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday night still wearing the embellished dress she had worn to the Elie Saab show that night.
Similar dresses from the designer sell for more than £5,000. Poppy is courting billionaire Archie Keswick, who should be able to keep her in the style she’s used to.