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
It is always interesting that so many people have a different perception of “stunning”
I myself don’t find her stunning. I don’t like the pictures either. I think she is pretty. But the pictures to me are Meh..
You’re not alone there, Lisa.
Seriously, what does ‘fully iconic’ mean?
The thing with Kate Moss is, while she can be a hot mess in real life, she can turn it out in her work. She is really something else!
I agree she looks pretty here. But does anyone else think that the good folks at Vogue went a little crazy, ass-kissing-wise, describing her as ‘a beautiful, untouchable, thoroughly twenty-first-century woman who remains as inscrutable as an early Renaissance heroine.’ I mean, damn. She’s a beautiful woman who makes a living by having her picture taken. What’s heroic about that? And what the hell is a ‘thoroughly twenty-first-century woman’? Is Kate more twenty-first-century than me? I don’t get it.
^^This
They needed some kind of bull to balance out their good deed, i.e. the ban on underage models and anorexics. I agree with you Cherry, they’re full of sh-t and quite disconnected from reality.
On a higher note (pun intended), Kate Moss is yet another proof that you can do hard drugs for decades on end, and not only survive, but also thrive. Yet start doing “prescription drugs” and not only do you lose your looks in record time, but your life as well!
Gotta love Photoshop.
I don’t like the dress on the cover, it looks like something I could find in a high street store – I want Kate Moss in clothes I can’t afford! Love the rest of the pictures, she truly does have a photogenic face.
She looks good, but the pics are waaay overprocessed.
She looks much better in less structured clothing because she gives off such a relaxed, hippy kinda vibe.
http://www.celebitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/kate_moss_wedding_2_wenn3420875.jpg
Hardly iconic! Were it not for Photoshop, she’d look like a haggard old drug addict.
Agreed! She is way past her prime! Photoshop worked a miracle on this lady!
She is very pohotogenic maybe not very beautiful but she look so good in pictures .
I love the cover and the shoot too. Don’t really think much of Kate but as a model she rocks and her style is iconic imo.
Goddess. That is all.
Thank you. I agree
Gorgeous! Unmatched by anyone.
She doesn’t look like this, fullstop. As far as an illusion, or even cartoon goes, the pictures are great but let’s not pretend they in any portray a truth.
Iconic. No one can touch Moss.
Exactly!
I like her. She is wild and free and doesn’t give a shit about anything. She does what she wants. She has the “it” factor. Camera loves her and no one can deny it. This cover is great.
Totally.
Agreed!
Camille I totally agree with you.
I dont find her attractive or beautiful. I just dont, her face it not pretty, she has a unique face, but not in a good way. Again, ppl see beauty differently.
eh i didn’t know she has boobs.
Pffft! If Photoshop didn’t exist, Kate wouldn’t still be modelling in editorials. We all know how jacked up she looks in real life. Fashion’s power players can declare some alien waif with widely spaced eyes and a blank expression as “iconic” and enough people will buy their bullsh*t. They’ve made a lot of strange-looking models “happen”. In their view, Chloë Sevigny is also a model and icon. *rolls eyes*
The Daily Mail is a joke. Their writers can’t even master basic grammar and punctuation and their editors don’t proofread. Actual research is rarely attempted, so their credibility is low.
No DM, David Beckham wasn’t the first to pose like that with a rope. Neither was Madonna for the cover of Elle (May 2008). The photographers involved (with their unoriginal penchant for recycling the past) likely copied the 1953 photo of Marilyn Monroe in a blue bathing suit, red background, grasping a rope suspended from above. It’s no surprise, really, when every black & white Guess ad is a copy/paste of the 1950s-60s.
With sooooo many beautiful models out there, I dare magazines to go beyond and feature the diversity that is out there, but i am too idealistic. They constantly stick to a few set models to sell the stereotypical image, which is what I think of Kate Moss.
Dayum, gurl. Kate Moss 4-evah!!!
Meh, all I see I something who willingly slept in the same bed as pete doherty. A dirty, crack riddled and nightmare filled bed.
I agree attalia they are many and diverse models out there that should be on covers, and you don’t have to do it by quotas or anything like that – beyond that though at least Vogue UK has a MODEL on the cover – hello anne wintour and others in america besotted with our junk celebrity culture, get rid of the celebs and reality hos and put models back on fashion mags, fashion shines best when it focuses on style not celebrity (from a WSJ article awhile back); that’s the real problem.
WORD UP.
KATE AND NAOMI FOREVER.
In her prime she was quite a looker, but as somebody pointed out, she’s past her prime and the airbrushing won’t fool anyone.
I am surprised the fashion industry still relies on worn-out models and doesn’t bother to find new, fresh, younger faces.
all of these pictures look like they were pushed through an instagram filter haha
LOVE Kate and the pictures.
I can’t stand this drug addict. If she were a normal person, her daughter would have been taken from her by CPS years ago and she would be in jail. It makes me want to puke when people like this are above the law because someone thinks they are attractive. pleeeze!
This is the same magazine tha said anorexic models etc,kate moss is really thin did they make her look healthy for the cover.
I think this is the best she has ever looked. Good job airbrushing and make up team! hah
Getting a major Roxy Music album cover vibe from the colour shots. I suppose that makes sense, since she was the cover model for Brian Ferry’s last record.