About a year ago, Kate Moss and Gwyneth Paltrow were among the celebrities invited to party with Sir Phillip Green in Mexico for his 60th birthday party thing. I assumed that Kate and Gwyneth were paid to party with Green, or that the party was just so elite and lavish that it was worth their while to come to Mexico for several days. Anyway, the UK tabloids claimed that Kate and Goop got into some kind of confrontation/girl-fight while in Mexico. Gwyneth was out jogging on the beach while Kate was probably nursing an epic hangover, and Kate was all “Why are jogging on vacation, Goop?” And Goop was all, “So I don’t look like you when I get old.” And so Kate allegedly threw some potato chips at Gwyneth and retorted: “Why don’t you eat some f—king carbs?!”

Apparently, all of the other party guests heard about it and everyone was laughing at both of them. Gwyneth later denied that it happened, although she and Kate have barely been in the same place since then. So did it go down? And is Gwyneth now trying to bury the hatchet?

After a legendary fall-out over food and fitness a year ago, Kate Moss and Gwyneth Paltrow have buried the hatchet – over a slice of pizza.

Their argument began at Sir Philip Green’s 60th birthday party in Mexico last May.

According to witnesses, Kate, asked Iron Man actress Gwyneth why she was jogging on the beach.

Mother-of-two Gwyneth was reported to have fired back: ‘So I don’t look like you when I get old.’
An apoplectic Kate threw a handful of crisps at her, yelling: ‘Eat some f*****g carbs!’

Ironically, it was carbohydrates that reunited Kate, 39, and Gwyneth, 40, last week when they crossed paths at a smart North London pizza restaurant owned by the Soho House group and famed for its hog roast pizzas and macaroni cheese.

‘Gwyneth was at the Pizza East Kentish Town with husband Chris Martin, and their kids Apple and Moses, celebrating Apple’s ninth birthday with some of her friends,’ a fellow diner reveals. ‘As Gwyneth was about to leave, Kate waltzed across from the other side of the restaurant to say hello. They exchanged kisses and chatted for about ten minutes. Kate’s husband Jamie Hince also came over and everything seemed really friendly.’

[From The Mail]

Interesting. It’s interesting that Kate was the one to make the move to reconcile with Gwyneth. For all of her talk about New Age crap and finding peace and doing endless amounts of therapy, Gwyneth is the immature one who holds a silly grudge, and Kate is the one who is all, “I don’t even remember what we were fighting about.” This story makes Kate seem like a nice person and Gwyneth seem unworthy of her friendship.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Here is an image from Kate Moss’s latest endorsement/modeling gig for St. Tropez self-tanner. There’s another image – a butt shot – which I’m not including, but you can see here. I wouldn’t think Kate would want to associate herself with something as low-brow as a self-tanner, but when you think about it, Kate does mix up her advertising deals with high and low-brow stuff, so this kind of works. You can read more about Kate’s campaign here, and here’s the behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot:

I love her voice. She’s got that smoker’s rasp, but it’s inviting and she always seems so happy and chilled out. I like that she seems jazzed about this campaign too. It’s fascinating to me that Kate looks sort of bedraggled in the video and yet the ad photos are gorgeous. At this point, I guess advertisers don’t even bother spending money on hair and makeup people because they know they can fix everything with airbrushing.

Really, I just wanted to write this post because we have new photos of Kate out and about with her daughter Lila yesterday in London. Lila is SO pretty. She turns 11 years old this year. I think she’s going to be a petite little thing like her mom.

Photos courtesy of WENN, St. Tropez.

Lsst night, Rihanna didn’t really wear a costume as she was named Queen of the West Hollywood Halloween parade, but she ended up holding onto a sparkly magic wand and wearing a rhinestone-encrusted crown, which I guess qualifies as a “fairy queen” outfit. Kind of disappointing, right? We sort of expect Rihanna to go all out with dramatic outfits on most occasions, and here she almost looks like a civilian with a little black dress and pumps. Well, there is one notable thing to mention here — Rihanna’s already ditched the cropped ‘do for extensions. Too bad. Her short hair looked really great.

Katy Perry decided to attend the Hollywood Cemetary party as Jane Lane, who is the BFF of “Daria.” Katy scores points here by not defaulting to a slutty costume (some variant of pirate, cat, or whatever else), and her wig looks really cute.

Kate Moss and Jamie Hince dressed up as Morticia and Gomez Addams as they attended tellie presenter Jonathan Ross’ party. Jamie pulled off his end of the deal. Kate, not so much.

Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter were at the same party as Kate, and it’s odd to think of Tim and Helena dressing up at all because Halloween occurs nearly every day for them.

Sadly, Avril Lavigne did not dress as ex Deryck Whibley but instead opted to wear this sexy sailor costume. Here’s a photo of her outside BOA Steakhouse. Very unoriginal and very Avril.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Pacific Coast News, and WENN

Kate Moss covers the December issue of Vanity Fair, and we’ve already discussed a few of the early excerpts that leaked concerning Kate’s claim that she never did heroin and wasn’t anorexic. Now VF has released a few photos and much more of the interview, and I have to say that I am surprised at how much Kate is revealing here. While she is pushing her massive coffee table book, Kate: The Kate Moss Book, it’s still quite odd that Kate feels the need to “tell all” in a sense. She’s never been one to be interviewed (I think the first in-depth talk she gave was when pushing the first installment of her Topshop line several years ago), and I figure she harbors plenty of scandalous secrets that she’ll take to her grave. So it’s strange that she’s talking about her feelings for Johnny Depp here at all beyond a cursory surface sentence. Here are some excerpts:

Staying in character: “I don’t want to be myself, ever. I’m terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I’ve got facial Tourette’s. Unless I’m working and in that zone, I’m not very good at pictures, really. On my wedding day, I’m like freaking out, obviously. ‘You’ve got to give me a character.’ And [John Galliano] said, ‘You have a secret–you are the last of the English roses. Hide under that veil. When he lifts it, he’s going to see your wanton past!’”

Regrets over her 1992 Calvin Klein shoot: “I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn’t feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn’t like it. I couldn’t get out of bed for two weeks. I thought I was going to die. I went to the doctor, and he said, ‘I’ll give you some Valium,’ and Francesca Sorrenti, thank God, said, ‘You’re not taking that.’ It was just anxiety. Nobody takes care of you mentally. It was just really weird–a stretch limo coming to pick you up from work. I didn’t like it. But it was work, and I had to do it.”

On being shot by Corinne Day for The Face: “I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, If you don’t do it, then we’re not going to book you again. So I’d lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There’s a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested. And I had a big mole on one. That picture of me running down the beach–I’ll never forget doing that, because I made the hairdresser, who was the only man on the shoot, turn his back.”

More on “heroin chic”: “I had never even taken heroin–it was nothing to do with me at all. I think Corrine–she wasn’t on heroin but always loved that Lou Reed song, that whole glamorizing the squat, white-and-black and sparse and thin, and girls with dark eyes. She loved that look. I was thin, but that’s because I was doing shows, working really hard. At that time, I was staying at a B and B in Milan, and you’d get home from work and there was no food. You’d get to work in the morning, there was no food. Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don’t get fed. But I was never anorexic. They knew it wasn’t true–otherwise I wouldn’t be able to work.”

On Johnny Depp: “There’s nobody that’s ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, ‘What do I do?,’ he’d tell me. And that’s what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust. Nightmare. Years and years of crying. Oh, the tears!”

On the tamer life: “I don’t really go to clubs anymore. I’m actually quite settled. Living in Highgate with my dog and my husband and my daughter! I’m not a hell-raiser. But don’t burst the bubble. Behind closed doors, for sure I’m a hell-raiser.”

[From Vanity Fair]

That part about Johnny is interesting, isn’t it? I wonder what husband Jamie Hince thinks of her answers. I’ve always thought that Kate was still (to this date) kind of hung up on him (or rather, the old Johnny), and she even admitted (in passing) during a Dazed & Confused interview in the late 1990s that she had never gotten over him after several years. Oddly enough, that interview was with Jefferson Hack, with whom Moss went on to have a relationship with and to spawn daughter Lila Grace. So maybe guys who date Kate Moss have always realized that they’ll never top Johnny, and they don’t mind. If you ask me (and you clearly haven’t), Kate totally dodged a bullet when she left Johnny. She didn’t have to be the one who dealt with his ridiculous mid-life crisis.

By the way, this is a very Bridget Bardot-inspired photoshoot. Does Kate pull it off?

Photos courtesy of Vanity Fair

Here are some photos of Kate Moss out for DVDs and popcorn with daughter Lila Grace last week. We don’t get many photos of Kate doing the mummy thing (and most such photos are printed in the UK tabloids, which blur out children’s faces), so it’s nice to see Kate and Lila together once and awhile. Lila looks like Kate but also very much like her father, magazine publisher Jefferson Hack. She’s a beautiful child.

At the moment, Kate is raring up for the release of Kate: The Kate Moss Book, which celebrates her longevity as a model and “evolution from ‘new girl with potential’ to one of the most iconic models of all time.” Can you believe that Kate Moss has been gracing magazine covers and runways for over 20 years now? She’s like the Little Waif That Could. I’ve always loved this catwalk compilation which really goes to show how far Kate will go to sell an outfit in those few seconds she wears it on the runway.

Of course, Kate probably won’t do much press (if any) for the book because she’s only done a handful of interviews over her entire career. The book itself looks to be a coffee-table extravaganza with eight different covers, all of which were hand-picked by Kate herself. The subject matter will be primarily made up of photography (some of the “never-before-seen” variety) from Corinne Day (who discovered Kate), Mario Sorrenti, Mario Testino, Nick Knight, Steven Klein, Terry Richardson (gross) and many more. Kate dedicates her book to husband Jamie Hince, and here are some excerpts from the written portions:

On being body conscious: “I hated my boobs more than anything as a teenager. I’d do anything not to take my top off. I see nudity as empowering now. Before, I didn’t. I cried for years!”

On aging: “Well, I am never going to be 18 again, when I could do shoots with no make-up, but it’s not as though I don’t want to have wrinkles, because I think it’s important to have your own face that you live in. There are always new ways of looking through new eyes. I still don’t feel I’m done — I’m not finished yet.”

On being dubbed “heroin chic”: “If I was anorexic or if I was on heroin, maybe I would have been a bit more ‘oh dear!’ But I wasn’t any of those things that they were painting me to be. It didn’t have anything to do with who I was at all, so I never really thought about it. I just thought, the people who know me know the truth. I was lucky to be with Johnny at that stage. He taught me a lot about fame. He told me ‘never complain, never explain.’ That’s why I don’t use Twitter and things like that. I don’t want people to know what is true all the time and that’s what keeps the mystery.”

On her philosophy: “I remember my mum telling me you can’t have fun all the time and I still hold my answer true today when I told her ‘But, why not”‘”

[From Daily Mirror]

Hmm, do you believe that Kate has never taken heroin at any point in her life? She was definitely (and maybe still is) Cocaine Kate even though she never admitted (to Scotland Yard) that the substance in the infamous drug-taking video was actually coke. It’s hard to believe that anyone can date Pete Doherty for years and not indulge in heroin themselves, but I guess maybe Kate just has one particular drug of choice. Kate’s party lifestyle is definitely catching up to her, but she still remains one of the world’s most iconic models to date and will always be an incredible trend setter (notwithstanding the horrible pink sunglasses in these photos). Viva La Moss!

Photos courtesy of WENN

These are photos of Salma Hayek at the Yves Saint Laurent show in Paris two days ago, on Monday. I’m sorry I’m just getting to them now. I was getting the feeling that many of you were at your limit with Salma and her Goop-tastic personality (she will teach a course in Poverty & Chanel), so I gave you a break yesterday. But these photos were too much to ignore! Salma and her husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, were seated next to Kate Moss and her husband, Jamie Hince, at the YSL show. The body language is amazing!!!

First of all, let’s just get technical with their ages. Kate Moss is 38 years old. Salma just turned 46 years old last month. But if you were just going by the photos, who looks older? Kate, right? You can tell which one is the trophy wife (I can’t get that out of my head now, after you guys mentioned it) and which one is the party girl. You can tell which one takes care of her skin and which one likes to sunbathe in St. Tropez without any sunscreen.

Now, Kate has that particularly model-y ability of extreme photogenic-ness, but even she looks pretty rough in these photos. Part of it is that she’s not as “made up” as Salma – Salma looks like she’s going to a fancy cocktail party. In 1965. Kate looks, as always, modern and like she just rolled out of bed, smoked her first cig of the day, and decided to wander into the YSL show. Which becomes an entirely different conversation – which woman looks more comfortable? Kate! Kate looks like she belongs, like she’s there to see the show and have some fun and maybe have a few glasses of champagne. Salma looks like she’s sitting on a tack.

Maybe that’s why Salma moved and made Francois sit beside Kate for the show? Hahaha. PS… Salma’s emerald ring is AMAZING.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

What is going on with Harper’s Bazaar lately? I remember, I had a subscription to Bazaar… maybe in the early years of the aughts, like 2001 and 2002. It was a good magazine back then, with interesting writers and sometimes moody, evocative, beautiful black-and-white pictorials. I guess they have new editors and I guess those editors are bored out of their skulls, because they keep hiring Terry Richardson for seemingly ALL of their photo shoots, and they all look the same, and they are all so budget and boring. With that in mind, here’s their June cover and cover shoot with Kate Moss.

Bazaar says that Kate is “modeling the best of the collections on location in Jamaica.” You can see the full photo shoot here. I was going to grab even more images from the shoot, but it’s like Terry and Kate both decided to completely phone it in. I swear, she only uses two “model-faces” throughout the whole shoot. Her two looks: “Wow, I did too much coke last night” and “OMG, I shouldn’t have just done all that coke.” You know that’s exactly what Kate and Terry did “on location in Jamaica.” They did lines and wandered around on the beach.

Incidentally, CB and I were talking about possibly covering this story about Kate’s claw-toes yesterday, but we decided against it. Because, honestly, her feet aren’t all that bad or good. She just has long toes, too-small shoes and no pedicure – you can see the photos here.

Photos courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar.

Kate Moss covers the June issue of Vogue UK, and she looks stunning. This particular issue is themed for the Olympics with a “Going for Gold” slogan (as well as an eye towards the upcoming Jubilee), and enduringly British Kate is definitely the right model for the job. The Mail notes that the rope that’s wrapped around Kate on this cover (her 32nd for Vogue UK) is the same one that was coiled around David and Victoria Beckham for the infamous 2009 Armani sausage-king underwear ad campaign. There’s a good reason for this — the same photographers, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, shot both the Beckhams for Armani and Kate for this cover as well. So far, there isn’t much to go with in the way of interview excerpts, but the magazine has included a nice tribute of words to Kate herself:

Vogue’s toast to Kate: “Kate Moss is our icon; a beautiful, untouchable, thoroughly twenty-first-century woman who remains as inscrutable as an early Renaissance heroine. While those around the 38-year-old have long testified to her earthy personality, tremendous sense of fun and filthy line in humour, she rarely speaks in public, giving her a remove from whichwe watch in awe, and allowing us to project upon her a thousand incarnations, from Grecian goddess to Little Briton to eternally dazzling cover star.”

Hairtylist Malcolm Edwards on Kate’s cover look: “We were choosing between pulling her hair back really tightly and making it really sporty – since it’s the Olympics issue – and having it really glamorous to show her as the British icon she is. I was really keen to create a really iconic style and Kate was all prepped so I said ‘let’s put her in the clothes and see.’ We went with the iconic look.”

[From Vogue UK]

Indeed, one could cut diamonds on Kate’s cheekbones, so the chosen hairstyle was certainly the way to go to show them off for maximum impact. The clothes here are also absolutely gorgeous too with Kate wearing a studded leather and silk Versace dress as well as a Dolce & Gabbana number that’s embedded with Swarovki crystals. Forget the creepy, sacreligious photo shoots of recent days, for Kate hasn’t looked this good in years. Le Moss is back!

Photos courtesy of Vogue UK and The Fashion Spot

Yesterday, I covered the photos of Rihanna at Stella McCartney’s London Fashion Week show – for Rihanna’s dress, Stella merely recycled some old Calvin Klein designs from the 1990s. (Sidenote: Stella is one of the most overrated and unoriginal designers out there.) These are some additional photos from the event – Kate Moss is in one of Stella’s “illusion” dresses which are supposed to fool the eye into thinking that women have super-tiny waists. Kate Winslet wore a similar dress – I would have thought this style would be too provincial for someone like Moss. The dress doesn’t look bad on her or anything, it’s just not what I was expecting. In other Moss news, there’s a really weird story about Kate being temporarily paralyzed while she was in Paris:

Supermodel Kate Moss is suffering from a nerve disorder that has rendered her ‘temporarily paralysed’, according to friends. Kate was diagnosed with the condition last weekend after returning from Paris, where she woke up at the Ritz hotel unable to move her right arm and hand.

Although she will make a full recovery, the illness is a blow for Kate, 38, who is about to move into her £7.25 million new home in Highgate, North London, with husband Jamie Hince, 43. The couple have built a state-of-the-art gym at the property, but it will be some time before Kate is pumping iron.

‘Kate was at the Ritz when she woke and had no feeling in her arm, which was terrifying,’ says a friend. ‘She saw the hotel’s doctor and when she came back, she got a second opinion. She has told her friends she has ulnar nerve entrapment, a common disorder that can result in a temporary paralysis.’

As Kate prepares to move into her luxury mansion – which has cardio machines, a marble wetroom and sauna as well as a huge Turkish steam bath with Jacuzzi – she may need an extra pair of hands to help with all the unpacking.

For the time being, an unhappy Kate has told friends she cannot even take the lid off a jar.

‘Jamie will do most of the unpacking as Kate has been in a lot of pain,’ says the friend. ‘She was told the condition could take months to heal. She has told all her friends about her hospital drama.’

Kate plans a housewarming party, which has been pushed back until she has fully recovered. A source close to the supermodel says: ‘Her hand is not paralysed or injured in any permanent way.’

[From The Mail]

My first thought was that Kate’s paralysis could be drug related, but I guess not. It sounds like a more serious case of “pinched nerves”? It sounds rough – and although it probably isn’t drug-related, maybe it will help Kate cut back on her partying.

I’m including more photos from the Stella event, including a photo of Stella in her own design. Yes, she designed a dress that makes a woman look like she has an enormous, pointed ass. I told you – overrated and unoriginal. And yes, there is absolutely NO reason for Alexa Chung to be considered a fashion icon or interesting.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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.