Kate Moss covers the March 2012 issue of W Magazine, and these are some selected images from the cover shoot – you can see the full slideshow here at W. She got TWO covers actually, although I have only three words for this Steven Klein shoot: What. The. Frick. In God’s name, WHY? While I’ve never been all-about-Kate, I think she’s rock-and-roll and I think she’s one hell of a model. As in, she’s intriguing and interesting to look at, and she’s incredibly photogenic. This photo shoot is filled with a strange blend of religious and sacrilegious imagery, birds, spiders and corpse styling, and it’s maybe the worst Kate has ever looked, right? Yes, the images are “striking”. The last images of Lindsay Lohan are “striking” as well, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to slap the “supermodel” label on a walking corpse.

Of course, W Magazine didn’t get an interview with Moss. Instead, W got Will Self to write this oddly sycophantic piece about Kate and how she’s aging yet not-aging. You can read it here – I’m not going to bother excerpting it. I will, however, put up some quotes from angry Christians who are royally pissed off with this photo shoot:

While the Kate Moss-W Magazine photos are a hit with aspiring fashionistas, they have caused outrage among conservative groups, RadarOnline.com can exclusively reveal.

“Clearly W magazine needs to generate some controversy to pretend it matters, so it’s turned to today’s standby and decided to bash Christianity,” Dan Gainor of the Culture and Media Institute exclusively told RadarOnline.com.

“Everything W has done here, from making the issue the ‘Fashion Bible’ to having Moss hold a crucifix provocatively between her legs, is designed to provoke controversy and mock religion. We get it, hating Christians is certainly in fashion.

“Interestingly, W tried to create twin covers showing a good and a bad Kate Moss. Given how twisted W is for mocking religion, they should have stuck to just one cover — the bad — to reflect the magazine itself. While Moss can be faulted for appearing in this spread, it’s the responsibility of the magazine’s editors not to try to profit by denigrating faith. Instead of high-brow fashion, readers get low-brow bigotry,” he concluded.

[From Radar]

You know how dumb I am? I didn’t even get the whole “fashion bible” reference until that Radar thing. Anyway, even though I’m not going to get all up in arms over the religious stuff in the shoot, I do understand why these photos have upset the devout. Mostly the pics just upset me aesthetically, though. They made her look like crap!

Photos courtesy of W Magazine’s slideshow.

Last night in London, all of the fashion girls came out for the British Fashion Awards. Here’s what you need to know about the event: in the category of “British Style Award” (I’m assuming that’s for who represents British style around the world), Duchess Kate was nominated but she didn’t win. Alexa Chung won. In what world?!?! Other winners included Victoria Beckham for Best Designer Brand, Stella McCartney for “The Red Carpet Award,” Stella Tennant for Model of the Year, and Colin Firth’s wife Livia for Red Carpet Dresser of the Year. I mean… I love fashion, and I love talking about this stuff, but do we really need a ceremony in which “awards” are handed out to these people? Anyway, let’s talk fashion. First up, Victoria Beckham in one of her own designs. I actually love it. I couldn’t wear it – but it’s lovely.

Kelly Brook in a one-shouldered gown in white. Lovely. Not very fashion-forward or anything, but she’s just so pretty.

I love Colin Firth and Livia. I love that he’s with someone who has some substance and elegance. I love that they look so good together. I even love her wrinkled dress.

Alexa Chung: Bangs trauma and an eating disorder. What’s worse, the hair or the toothpick legs? Rough all around.

Kate Hudson in what I think is Stella McCartney. It’s business in the front, but there’s a party on the side…?

Look what got scraped off of the bottom of the barrel. Jesus, Kate Moss looks terrible.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

On Thanksgiving, I felt like Kate Moss looks in these photos. My aunt got me drunk on nice Chianti before we even sat down to eat. Sigh… I can no longer hold my liquor. I wonder if Kate Moss can? She’s been drinkin’ and cokin’ and partyin’ for so many years, hasn’t she built up her tolerance for this kind of lifestyle by now? So why is it that she’s still capable of looking so wasted in photos? These are pics from Wednesday night/Thursday morning, with Kate and her husband Jamie Hince leaving The Box in London. Jamie looks like he’s been drinking, but he’s still capable enough of handling himself. Kate looks like she might pass out on the street. How much did she have to drink if she can still get that wasted? And although she looks blitzed, that face is still so… interesting. Model-y.

Anyway, Star Magazine has a story about the “trouble in married paradise” – Jamie is super-pissed that his new wife is still going out and partying all of the time:

The tension has been brewing between Kate Moss and Jamie Hince since their July wedding. The couple had a bitter blowup in Paris when his band, The Kills, played a gig there in mid-November.

“Kate promised Jamie that once they were married, they’d move to the English countryside and she’d quit drinking and smoking and try for a baby,” a source close to the duo tells Star. “But now she’s refusing to leave London, and if anything, she’s drinking more. He’s fed up.”

“Kate’s tellsing pals that Jamie takes her for granted and just sees her as an ‘incubator’ for a baby,” says the source, who adds that Kate is also jealous of the time he spends with his ex, The Kills singer Alison Mosshart. “She says she was a fool to marry him.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

Isn’t it “on” Jamie? He knew who he was marrying, and he’s the dumbass who thought he could “change’ her. On the other side, I have noticed that Kate does seem to be partying much more (or much more publicly) since getting married. I kind of hoped she would be more settled once she got married, and that she and Jamie would have a baby too. But it looks like Kate is drowning her newlywed bliss in vodka. I bet Jamie sticks around for a while, though. I do think he loves her.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Pacific Coast News.

Legend has it that the legendary Kate Moss was discovered (by the late photographer Corinne Day) in JFK airport at the tender age of 14 years. Now Kate’s very own half-sister, Lottie Moss, has also been plucked from obscurity after popping up in photographs as one of the bridesmaids at Kate’s July wedding to Jamie Hince, and 13-year-old Lottie is ready for her proverbial closeup. How does she fare?

Lottie has posed for her first modelling shoot (test shots, actually) with photographer Andrea Carter-Bowman, which was arranged by Storm Model Management (the same agency that’s represented Kate for decades). So the hot button question here is this — is Lottie too young for this sort of thing? That’s a tricky question to answer, for this shoot certainly isn’t as offensive as, say, Kendall Jenner modelling bikinis at age 15. Mostly, Lottie is covered up in these outfits although she certainly looks a lot older than her age would reveal:

Overall though, I feel surprisingly “meh” about Lottie Moss, which is strange because I’m such a huge fan of Kate. While there is a notable family resemblance (those doe eyes and some bone structure), Lottie doesn’t really jump out visually as a face to remember. Give her a few years, perhaps, and that might change. Actually, waiting a few years would be a wise thing all around, and I hope that Storm and Lottie’s parents encourage the girl to grow up a bit more before entering the industry.

Photos courtesy of Fashionising

Last night, Kate Moss went on a bit of a bender and looked completely wasted in public both on the way to and from the 20th anniversary party for Dazed and Confused magazine, which was held at the W hotel in London. She was spotted leaving the event at 3am; earlier, Kate was photographed leaving St. Johns restaurant while still carting around her own glass of wine because … perhaps she was afraid there wouldn’t be enough liquor at the party?

Most high-brow parties don’t usually ask guests to bring their own wine. But that’s exactly what Kate Moss appeared to do last night when she arrived at the Dazed & Confused 20th birthday party in London.

Arriving at the plush W London Hotel in a sexy black mini-dress, the 37-year-old was carrying a glass of wine… presumably a souvenir from her dinner. Looking slightly worse for wear as she entered the W through the back door, she was accosted by a homeless man, who she was happy to talk to.

The supermodel had started off the night at an exhibition at Somerset House to mark the 20th anniversary of the hip publication. Then she popped on to a nearby restaurant before ending the evening at the W bar for the main Dazed & Confused 20th celebrations.

Moss was at the event to support ex-boyfriend and father of her child, Jefferson Hack, who founded the publication.

[From Daily Mail]

Quite often, I marvel at the genuinely friendly relationship that Kate continues to maintain with Jefferson Hack. Even though he is the father of her child, I can attest (probably along with many of you) that it’s exceedingly difficult to “like” one’s ex other than to fake it for the sake of the children. My guess is that Kate was the one who broke off the relationship, and (to an extent) Jefferson continues to worship La Moss. They hooked up after she first appeared in his magazine in the early aughts; after their split, Jefferson continued to support Kate’s career and even gave her the cover of Dazed in 2007 when she was preparing to launch her first Topshop high-street fashion line.

As for Kate’s drunken state last night, that’s merely how she rolls. The Mail tried to make a huge deal of her recent Jamaican vacation with friend Sadie Frost. That article described the getaway as necessary in terms of “marriage shock” (to Kills guitarist Jamie Hince) because Kate was supposedly sighted downing three beers for breakfast, but I doubt that’s the case. The Kills recently released their fourth album, so Jamie’s been touring like crazy for the past few months and shows no signs of letting up anytime soon.

In the meantime, Kate just likes her booze. She doesn’t eat much, and it doesn’t take much to get drunk on an empty stomach. I’d even be willing to wager that most of her daily caloric intake comes from wine, beer, and the regular gin and tonic. Somehow, Kate still ends up looking fabulous even in a very disheveled state. Kaiser, CB, and I are all crushing on her very 1990s outfit here. She’s wearing head-to-toe black while showing off her roots, unpolished nails, and very minimal makeup. Still, bitch looks good:

At a certain point between stops, Kate paused to talk to a homeless man (according to Fame), who asked her for money. Before Kate could comply, her friends dragged the supermodel away by yanking on her dress. I bet she’d have handed over a lot of cash in her inebriated state.

Photos courtesy of Fame, PCN, and WENN

Over the weekend, Kate Moss and her ruggedly handsome husband, Jamie Hince, were spotted at Paul McCartney’s wedding to Nancy Shevell. Naturally, Kate looked gorgeous. Of course, it’s a poorly kept secret amongst my friends that I completely adore Kate Moss as a model, as a trendsetter, and as a bit of a mess who has pulled herself together in the last handful of years. She’s certainly not a classic beauty but has a unique look and has perservered in the fashion world despite the odds; somehow, she’s also emerged as a very shrewd businesswoman. Hell, I even stuck by Kate during her bizarre Pete Doherty-loving phase that lasted a few years, at least. So when Kaiser sent me the link to this story, I was so excited for the simple reason of being able to dig up some of Kate’s old Rimmel adverts (yes, I have collected a folder full of them), especially the ones where she modelled lipstick. You’ll see why in just a moment.

As a model and spokesperson, Kate’s been with Rimmel for over a decade, and she’s soon preparing to launch her own lipstick line with the company. So she’s dished out some of her makeup secrets, which are — um — quite like my own; that is, Kate confesses to shunning lip liner during her offtime and choosing instead to just “shove it on” in regard to lipstick. Yes, she’s freely admitting to such an atrocious practice!

Kate Moss can “feel” when she needs to apply more blusher.

The British supermodel has just created a range of lipsticks in collaboration with Rimmel London. To mark their release she’s opened up about her beauty secrets.

The star has worn flicked eyeliner for so long she doesn’t need a mirror to apply it. She recommends using a kohl pencil rather than a liquid liner as they are easier, especially if there are any mistakes. Kate also doesn’t need to look at herself to know when she needs some extra colour on her face.

“I can feel when I need it. I use a powder and then a cream blush over the top to get a bit of a glow,” she told Style magazine.

When it comes to lipstick she applies and blots three times. She doesn’t bother using a liner or a brush either.

“Make-up artists do that, but I wouldn’t do it on myself. I don’t use a lip liner or a lip brush: I just shove it on,” she laughed.

Kate also uses liquid foundation and bronzer. She has many favourite products and hates it when something she loves can no longer be found. The star has a cunning way of getting round that problem though.

“I tend to keep [old make-up], it’s terrible,” she laughed. “I like one thing, then it goes out of production, so I have to phone up the artist and beg for more. They discontinue the best products, it’s really annoying. I’ve got a lot stockpiled.

“I’ve got a thing about sticky – it can’t be sticky [on my lips]. From doing so many shoots when they get the wind machine out and my hair sticks to me. I get the fear.”

The model would love to create an entire make-up range and it’s something she might do in the future. She enjoys the way cosmetics can transform women, although she doesn’t wear them all the time.

Her nine-year-old daughter Lila Grace prefers her bare-skinned, with Kate waiting for the time when she develops an interest in make-up.

“Oh, yes, I always take my make-up off, because otherwise my daughter will come in and say, ‘Mummy, tut-tut.’ She doesn’t like it. She likes the fresh-faced, natural mummy, when I’ve got my hair in a bun and no make-up on,” Kate said.

[From Belfast Telegraph]

Kate’s appeal is very “high street” and translated well into a Topshop clothing collection for several seasons running, so a lipstick line with Rimmel is the perfect extension of her brand, which is not exactly high class but highly affordable and slightly dangerous. However, I do disagree with her about Rimmel’s sticky factor — I have tried their glosses, and they stick like crazy. Their lipstick is okay though, but it’s pretty inexpensive, and you get what you pay for. Regardless, I can’t wait to check out Kate’s new lipsticks when they eventually show up at Target because, you know, I’m classy like that.

Here’s some photos of a (mostly) barefaced Kate heading towards and from London Fashion Week:

Photos courtesy of Fame and Rimmel

I’m doing this story just because I wanted to spend ten minutes looking up old photos of Johnny Depp and Kate Moss. Sigh… the 1990s. So much fun. I wish there were more couples like that these days. They were wild and fun and they really loved each other. Anyway, I didn’t even know this was a story, but apparently there are lots of rumors going around about Kate Moss possibly penning a memoir. I did a 2-second Google search and found that Kate was also writing memoirs in 2009, 2006, and beyond, so… this might just be BS. But it’s fun to consider that one of the most private and secretive celebrity-models out there could be telling her story. Go here to Styleite to read more about the memoir rumor.

So that’s the jumping off point for this Enquirer story – Johnny Depp is worried what Kate might write about him in her memoir:

Kate Moss and Johnny Depp dated from 1994 to 1997m and sources say she plans to spill ugly details about his boozing, drug-taking and partying in her upcoming memoir

“Johnny’s worked really hard to shed his badboy image, and he’s livid that Kate is going to write about her crazy antics,” divulged an insider. “He doesn’t want his past dredged up, Plus, he’s worried that someday his kids will read all about what a wild man he was.”

“Johnny is a family man now and Vanessa will flip out if she reads the nitty-gritty details about his wild life with Kate,” claimed the insider.

In the past, Depp has referred to his time with Moss, saying, “I was a horrific pain in the butt to live with.”

The insider says: “Kate is still bitter about her breakup with Johnny, and she’ll no doubt use the book as payback… Johnny has called Kate and sent e-mails asking her to leave out any reference to him. But Kate knows Johnny is on eof the main selling points of her life story.”

[From The Enquirer, print edition]

Yes, the Depp part would be the first part I would flip to – he was the best of Kate’s exes. I mean, Pete Doherty?!? I still can’t believe Kate was with Doherty. So Depp is the selling point…that, and all of those alleged orgies Kate has had with half of London. God, she’s so much fun. I’ve always thought Kate and Johnny were still a little bit hung up on each other – and I’ve always thought Vanessa Paradis looked an awful lot like Kate.

Honestly, though, I doubt Kate is ready to write her memoir – but I think she might do it at some point, maybe when she’s not making millions a year from modeling.

Archive photos from the 1990s.

I was trying to find a way to organize some of the best excerpts from Kate Moss’s Vogue cover story – all about her wedding, behind-the-scenes, plus a great interview – but it would be better for you to just go to Vogue and read the piece, and while you’re there, check out the slideshow of Mario Testino’s photos. All of it is enchanting! And that’s coming from someone who isn’t a huge fan of Kate historically. Okay, here are some of the best excerpts:

Why Kate decided to accept Jamie Hince’s proposal: After a romantic trip to Thailand two years into their liaison, Kate recalls, “we were just so loved up, and he asked me to marry him every day.” But it was curling up together in front of the compelling British television documentary series Big Fat Gypsy Weddings that appears to have sealed the deal. “I am so romantic about Gypsies,” Kate explains. “They’re not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen. You can’t believe the dresses. They’re like blinging butterflies times ten; they can’t move down the aisle! It’s so genius. I was just watching Jamie, so cute, and I was like, these girls, they just spend their whole life waiting for that day—let’s do it!”

Kate does yoga: Mario is shooting the couple for Vogue at a magnificent seventeenth-century Cotswolds mansion. “I so want a stately home,” sighs Kate, admiring the rolling Capability Brown landscape. At 37, she looks ravishing; she attributes her honed form to Jivamukti yoga. “They call it moving meditation,” she says. “It’s loud, loud music, so it’s dynamic, not boring.”

Pre-wedding jitters: In the pictures you can feel the love, but off-camera nerves are fragile. The groom-to-be “is terrified,” says Kate. His prospective bride is in denial. “Let’s put it this way,” she says. “If I didn’t have my friends. . . . I don’t know how people do it. I’ve had big birthday parties, and I’ve thrown parties for other people, but this is a completely different thing. It’s the Met Ball! Because you have to look at every piece of cutlery; the details are intense. And then you wake up thinking about the ballet shoes for the girls; is the satin ribbon right? I’ve gone mental. Jamie thinks I’m mad, asking, ‘Are you gonna be all right? After the wedding, I’m hoping you’ll get back to normal!’”

Church drama: She had originally wanted to get married in the enchanting twelfth-century church at the bottom of her garden, but as it proved too small even for her intimate wedding party (138 guests have been invited to the church ceremony; 39 of those are children), she decided on St. Peter’s Church, in the neighboring village of Southrop, where Lila Grace, her eight-year-old daughter with journalist Jefferson Hack, was christened.

The mood Kate was aiming for: “I 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!” There will be Edwardian marquees in her field and a circus tent for the children, with a miniature drum kit and their own DJ and tepees for them to sleep in. A stage is being built by hand, “which I’m going to keep for festivals for the future,” she explains.

The bridesmaids & flower girls: There are sixteen bridesmaids and flower girls, ages two to fourteen. “They are so good together,” says Kate. The children all clearly adore Kate the den mother; she loves nothing more than having her own houses in town and country thronging with them. She even installed a swing in her London dressing room but packed away the precious clothes after they started seeing a bit too much wear and tear.

Kate’s daughter: Lila Grace is very much in control as she corrals the other children and then executes some dance moves to entertain them (she has a ballet performance on the weekend). Her mother’s friends laughingly compare her to Absolutely Fabulous’s Saffy, the studious, long-suffering daughter to Kate’s giddy Edina. “Mummy, are you stressed?” she asks solicitously at one point.

The dress: In the flurry of pre-wedding madness and nerves, the one thing that is keeping Kate sane is the dress. With characteristic loyalty, she has asked her beleaguered friend John Galliano to work on this. “When I put the dress on, I’m really happy,” says Kate. “I forget about everything.” She wanted “a classic Galliano, those chiffon thirties kind. I’ve lived in his dresses for years, and they just make me feel so comfortable. But it’s so much more couture, couture, couture. Oh, my God, the work that’s going into the dress!” They discussed everything on the phone, and then, when John was out of rehab for the first of four marathon fittings, he brought her “bags full of bits, and pulled tulle and sequins and veils and flowers out. And then we just kind of pinned things together, like the old days, you know?”

Everyone waits for Naomi Campbell: Naomi, in a flurry of lemon-yellow Givenchy gauze, is the last to arrive, so all is right with the world (“Trying to upstage me, bitch?” says Kate, laughing).

The end: At a quarter to five (a.m.) 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!”)

[From Vogue]

Haha, Kate is lucky she didn’t get a face full of phone for calling Naomi a bitch to her face. Hysterical. Honestly, though, I’m not a wedding person, but Kate’s wedding looks and sounds so beautiful and lovely. I think that’s the good part about getting married well into your 30s – you know your own personality, you know what you want, you have your priorities straight, and you can give yourself a great, unique wedding.

Photos courtesy of Vogue/Testino.

Ever since Kate Moss got married, I’ve had a great deal of affection for her. She just looked so damn happy at her wedding, and it seems like London’s most famous Single Girl has finally found herself in a great relationship with a great guy, and all of the other stuff doesn’t matter so much. Kate’s BFF Sadie Frost (ex-wife of Jude Law and sometime orgy-partner with Moss) says that Kate is in a new headspace too – no more 4 am coke binges. Now it’s bingo with the kids! Sadie tells Hello! Magazine, “On Saturdays, we cook lunch for our kids and hang out in the garden. I had a great time on Saturday night playing bingo at home with the children. We still have a really good time, doing things normal grown ups do with their children, playing games.”

As for these photos – Kate took her daughter Lila to St. Tropez for a vacation. I’m assuming Jamie Hince is around there too, I just don’t see any photos of him. Kate looks pretty cute and not too crackie in the pics, and she didn’t even seem to care that everybody got pics of her swimming and diving while topless. I know, it’s European, etc. I’m still not going to put up the photos of Kate’s boobs. Hopefully, you’ve already seen them a million times (she gets photographed topless all the time). Here’s something with no nipple for the true fans:

I will however show you all of the photos of Kate shoving a young boy into the ocean. These pics are so funny – especially because it seems like it happened in slow motion, and you can see the kid’s face is like “WTF IS HAPPENING— OMG, KATE MOSS!” After this happened, I bet Kate farted on her husband’s lunch and remarked “Special seasoning!” and then she told her daughter there’s no Santa Claus and snort-cackled.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Here is the August cover for Vogue UK – KATE MOSS. Or “Mrs. Hince” if you will. The dress is Miu Miu and the Moss pictorial was done by Mario Testino. This is very interesting because Kate is allegedly supposed to get the September cover of American Vogue, with an extensive profile of her wedding. Mario Testino was AT her wedding, and he was photographing Kate on the day, in candids (and I would imagine, several formal portraits as well). Did Vogue UK just c–kblock American Vogue?

As for Kate’s post wedding plans, according to random British sources, Kate and Jamie Hince are honeymooning in the Mediterranean, on Sir Philip Green’s yacht. Sources also claim that Kate is “desperate” for another child, and hopes to get pregnant on her honeymoon. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Kate wound up pregnant again – Lila is how old now? She’s like 8 or 9 years old, I think. And Kate is only 37! A source tells Closer magazine: “Kate wants to give Jamie the best wedding gift he could wish for by coming home from their honeymoon pregnant. They’ve started a new chapter and feel ready for parenthood. Kate’s never really been ready to try for another baby, there was always some event coming up, but now she is. (She) has been eating tons of oily fish, veg and fruit to make sure she can conceive. Jamie has long been keen for them both to curb their partying and settle down.” Yeah, it’s past time for Kate to put down the straw and start cleaning up her bidness. That being said, she managed to give birth to one healthy child, and I hope she will be able to again.

Here are more wedding photos! Enjoy the contrast between Kate when she’s beautifully styled for a professional shoot, and what she looks like in candids. I like her, I really do, but everything from the neck up looked kind of ragged on her wedding day.

Vogue UK photos courtesy of The Fashion Spot. Additional pics by WENN.