I have to admit I was one of the sad cases that went to this opening in hope of getting a dress I saw in a magazine preview of Kate Moss’s Topshop collection. I walked out empty handed because by the time they let my group of 120 people in, my dress was gone. Argh!

Anyway, Kate Moss was there and she posed in the front window of Topshop’s flagship store in London’s shopping Mecca, Oxford Street. She was a lot shorter than I thought she would be, and I liked the style of the dress she had on but hated the colour (if I wore it, I’d just look like a tall glass of Tang). After she was done modelling, she went into a VIP area to celebrate with her pal Sadie Frost and others. Not a bad night’s pay for only standing in front of a window 20 seconds.

A lot of the stuff that was on sale that she designed was impractical for women of “size” (i.e. anyone who isn’t as thin as a 7 year old boy), and I didn’t find a lot of the stuff very inspiring — I’ve found better and cheaper stuff in Forever 21 in the US, and that is saying something. Even though there were loads of women lining up the street in order to get in the store, there wasn’t a huge stampede to get in, unlike the time I tried to buy Tickle Me Elmo for my niece for Christmas the year it was the must have item.

As this is the Kate Moss collection, it is expected that her clothes fly off the rails within days, and indeed when I looked online this morning in a last ditch attempt to find the dress I wanted, I found it was not listed on the website. AND this is with people limited to buying 5 items at a time so as they aren’t oversold on E-Bay by shady entrepreneurs.

All in all, it looks like Kate’s foray into the world of fashion designing (even if she didn’t design a damn thing) has been successful. Unfortunately for me, it leaves me without a dress to wear to my high school reunion in a couple months time. Dammit!

Picture Note by Celebitchy: Here are pictures of Moss at her Topshop Collection opening, thanks to Photorazzi.