Putting the Cooties back into their brand name – Coty announced that part time model and full time Pete Doherty-enabler Kate Moss will be joining up with them to put out her own line of signature fragrances.

According to Coty, the first fragrance for Moss will capture her unique style and deepen her universal appeal. “As a one-of-a-kind modern beauty icon, Kate Moss carries clout and credibility among photographers, fashion designers and the beauty industry. This has made her a leading beauty face of the new millennium, said Bernd Beetz, CEO, Coty Inc. “There is no one better to embody a new fragrance than Kate, who epitomizes the look and feel of today’s fashionistas. We are very excited about this fragrance collaboration and look forward to a long and fruitful partnership.”

via Oh No They Didnt

Poor Bernd Beetz …named after an overcooked winter vegetable and also unable to recognize the difference between the last millennium and this one. Clout and credibility are clearly the new fading charm and unconvincing saleability.

It turns out deluded views of reality and a complete inability to sense which way the wind is blowing make Coty McCooties Inc. and Burnt Parsnips the perfect match for ol’ Mossy:

“For me, Coty is the ideal partner to create my own scent,” commented Moss. “I’ve been delighted to work with Coty over the years and am pleased to collaborate with them on my first fragrance.”

The yet-to-be named fragrance is set for launch in autumn 2007 throughout Europe, the Middle East and Australia with subsequent plans to extend to the United States, Canada and Latin America. The line will include eau de toilette, eau de perfume and ancillary products.

The anticipation fairly burns as the imagination fairly boggles:

A grotty fragrance that opens with fresh and mouth-watering notes of dirty weekend dishes, hypodermics and unwashed hair. The very Mossy heart note is composed of flip flops, ferret teeth and bad judgement, followed with a woody and sweet end note of shambles, babies and libertines.

Suggestions for the Fragrance’s name should keep the Internet busy for days.

And now for a bulletin from the world of high culture … in an era when the high is interested in getting as way down as it can. The National Portrait Gallery in London is no exception: here trouncing over the old high/low divide with that easiest and most often of cheap curator stunts – the Fashion Photography Show … and with the extra cojones of announcing this moldy old museum move as new and cutting edge. If it was a knife it couldnt get through soup. And we quote:

Face of Fashion focuses on the portraits of five outstanding fashion photographers from Europe and America: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, Corinne Day, Steven Klein, Paolo Roversi and Mario Sorrenti. It is the first exhibition of its kind, celebrating the innovation and diversity of current fashion portraiture.

Cheap curatorial maneuvering to imply. “Don’t worry folks … its just like a Vanity Fair meets People spread with pricier admission … nothing to be bored by here … you can stroll around then go for drinks.”

The National Gallery is adding to the extra thrilling kick of guarunteed non-boring art with a healthy helping of popular wish fulfilment. Photographer Steven Klein kicks in a picture of Kevin Federline (K-Fed, Fedex, K. Fiddy, Kuff Faddy, etc. etc. etc.) with his throat slit. The NPG continues in heinous prose:

In the contemporary fashion world, models, actors, musicians and designers frequently swap places. The exhibition highlights the relationship between fashion and celebrity and illustrates the extraordinary intimacy that often develops between photographer and subject.

K. Fiddy is none of those but here’s betting the free PR from the photo more than makes up for breaking the paper thin logic of this paper thin concept of a show. And its gotta give Britney a bright moment in an otherwise so far bleak 2007.

It looks like all the other rehab treatments, including a stint as a counselor, didn’t take for messed up Pete Doherty. The Sun is reporting that on-again girlfriend Kate Moss has dropped him off at an in-patient drug rehab in North West London near her home. Kate is said to be paying big bucks for Doherty to get treatment at the facility, where a 12-patient wing was cleared for him to stay. Kate will perhaps pop in for some sessions of her own, but seems to be staying offsite:

The supermodel and the shambolic rocker checked secretly into the discreet Capio Nightingale Hospital just half a mile from her home in North West London.

They met staff who cleared a 12-place unit at an annexe behind the main hospital building off busy Marylebone Road.

The pair were recognised by passers-by as they arrived but registered for treatment using false names.

Kate, 33. left the hospital yesterday but was expected back to join Doherty in therapy sessions.

Yesterday one of Kate’s assistants was seen delivering to the hospital what appeared to be groceries and computer gear.

There was news that Kate and Pete got married in Thailand over New Year’s, but Kate’s people denied that report. It seemed to me like it was some kind of commitment ceremony, because Pete insisted it was true.

Pete was recently questioned by police after the death of a man at a party. The guy was seen arguing with Pete and fell to his death from a balcony a short time later. Police said he was not a suspect, but the family was unconvinced.

Let’s just assume for a moment that Doherty is capable of prolonged sobriety and a somewhat normal lifestyle free of Jaguar crashing and random death. How long do you think Kate Moss could remain faithful to a guy like that? Don’t you think she’d consider him boring?

Header pictures is original art for Celebitchy by contributing writer and artist UrbanDK.

I’m not buying this latest wedding rumor about Kate Moss and Pete Doherty. The worlds most famous “chav” couple partied it up for New Years in Phuket, Thailand with Sarah Ferguson the Duchess of York and her family. There was an earlier story that they were going to get married between Christmas and New Years, and now a British paper is reporting that they’re planning a beach wedding to take place today, and that employees of the resort where they’re staying are in preparation for it.

Kate Moss is planning to marry her drug-addict boyfriend Pete Doherty in Thailand, reports suggested last night.

As the New Year dawned on the island of Phuket, there were persistent rumours that the 32-year-old model was about to wed.

An insider at the Amanpuri Hotel said: ‘Senior management at the hotel have been told that the couple are having a romantic, bohemian- style beach wedding. Family and friends have been invited.’

Kate Moss and Sarah Ferguson are unlikely friends after they met up last month to talk about a potential modeling career for Sarah’s daughter princess Beatrice, 18. Beatrice and Kate might have more in common than modeling aspirations, as Beatrice and her sister Eugenie, 16, trashed their mother’s mansion this spring with a drunken teen party.

Pete Doherty is on two years probation for multiple drug offenses that would probably get him years in jail in the states. He is able to travel despite his long record due to his status as an entertainer. The Sun reminds everyone that Thailand is known as an easy country in which to score drugs, which may explain Moss and Doherty’s vacation there.

I don’t know if I really give a shit if Doherty and Moss get married. They’d have to have a baby at this point to catch my interest – not that I’d wish that fate on an innocent child just so I’d have something to gossip about.

Here are old pictures of Kate and Pete at the Dublin airport on 9/25.

Going topless while on vacation is way cooler than flashing your vag on an average night out in LA. Moss has bared it for magazines before, so she probably won’t care that these pictures are out. The agency whose photographer snapped the picture, Flynet, claims that Moss has now broken up with troubled bad boy Pete Doherty.

Doherty is a suspicious figure in the death of a fellow party-goer last week. Doherty was seen arguing with the man, who fell from his death at some point from a second story balcony at the party. He avoided talking to the police that night and left the scene of the accident before they arrived. Doherty later went apeshit out at a pub and threw glasses and tables around. Police say he is not a suspect and that they have questioned him, but the man’s family say that they want to know the truth and do not consider the matter settled.

Maybe Kate has moved on with her life after this latest scandal, but that’s doubtful. She is staying in Jamaica at James Bond writer Ian Fleming’s former estate.

Update: photos removed on request.

Kate Moss appears in an artsy dream-sequence type video for high-end lingerie brand Agent Provacateur. Here is the first video of four, titled “Dreams of Miss X.” The title reminds me of the famous S&M novel “The Story of O.”

In later videos, Kate is said to be getting naked, but we’ve already seen her topless in quite a few photoshoots so that’s nothing novel.

Thanks to RogueConnect for finding this.

The implant in Pete Doherty’s stomach and the love of a skinny stupid supermodel couldn’t reform him no matter how much the world was rooting for his sobreity. He’s been arrested for drug posession more times than I can count:

Oh that explains it! He was stopped last week and found with drugs. Now that he’s back with Kate and has that drug impant we don’t have to worry about him any more. Now if only he can clean up up that silly legal mess he can clear the way for their secret wedding in Ibiza this weekend.

Along with probably jumping the gun on the Victoria Beckham pregnancy news, Britain’s Daily Star also claims to have an exclusive that Kate Moss, 32, and Pete Doherty, 27, are planning a semi-secret wedding in Ibiza this weekend:

This isn’t the first time Pete has bragged that he’s planning on marrying Kate Moss. Back in early April he told fellow revellers at an Austrian porn club that he and Kate had plans to marry in Scotland this fall. Their relationship fell apart afterwards, and those plans may have been real, or they might have been the meaningless ramblings of a drug addict.

It’s entirely possible that The Daily Star made this news up or that Pete is just talking out of his ass and this will never happen. Kate has been spotted with an engagement ring on her finger, though. Her friends deny that she’s engaged and say it’s her own ring.

If they do get married, I give it less time than Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney’s marriage. They’ve been reunited this third time, what, a week?

Engagement ring picture from PopSugar.