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Model house: let Kate Moss style your living room

December 25, 2019January 15, 2016 by Editorial Team

This article titled “Model house: let Kate Moss style your living room” was written by Jess Cartner-Morley, for theguardian.com on Friday 15th January 2016 07.21 UTC

Put all thoughts of that Danish mid-century teak armchair you’ve been stalking on eBay out of your mind, and start looking for a leopard-print sofa. Kate Moss is swapping her Saint Laurent duffel bag for a book of fabric swatches and a Farrow and Ball discount card. Moss is reported to have registered a new Kate Moss Interiors Ltd business at Companies House, signalling an intention to diversify from fashion into interior design. If Moss is even a fraction as influential on our sitting rooms as she has been on our wardrobes, our homes will never be the same again.

A Kate Moss designed room at The Barnhouse Photograph: LAKES BY YOO

Last year, Moss designed the interior of The Barnhouse, a five-bedroom country house that is part of The Lakes, a swish development of modern Cotswolds country homes. For that project, she was hired by John Hitchcox, chairman of design company YOO, with whom she explained she had bonded over a shared love of “the English countryside – and the pub!” Now, it seems as if The Barnhouse has given Moss a taste for the traditional middle-aged obsessions with soft furnishings and landscaping. In the fashion industry, she has leveraged her “eye” in order to move beyond modelling into designing (for Topshop and Longchamp) and styling (for British Vogue, where she is a contributing fashion editor). And as the owner of two very grownup houses – a Highgate town house once lived in by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and a Cotswolds retreat – Moss seems to be about to repeat the same trick in interiors, and turn her taste into a brand.

Moss in her signature leopardprint at the Burberry SS16 show. Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images

What does all this mean for your house? Wall-to-wall skinny-jean storage and designer ashtrays? Actually, no. While her taste in clothes retains a consistently backstage-rock-chick-made-good vibe – her last Topshop collection showed an undimmed passion for shrunken leather jackets, vintage-store cocktail looks, embroidered kaftans – her taste in interiors is, by contrast, notably more grownup. A year ago, she gave Vogue a tour of her London home. Between the inevitable war trophies of any survivor of the Primrose Hill set – leopard-print scatter cushions, tabloidy contemporary British art, velvet sofas – were surprisingly conventional touches. Urns of garden roses on the sideboard, neatly stacked art books on the coffee table, bone-china mugs, gilt wall sconces and cream-shaded table lamps all made an appearance. The Barnhouse had plenty of trad, country-home touches, too, from brass cup handles on the kitchen cabinets to a log-burner focal point in the living room.

The pool area of The Barnhouse, interior designed by Kate Moss. Photograph: Lakes by YOO

Invite to Kate’s 42^nd birthday party this Saturday still inexplicably lost in the post? Us too! Weird. But no matter: soon you can live the Moss lifestyle in the comfort of your own home. See you on the velvet sofa.

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How to get upgraded: a lesson in airport style

December 25, 2019November 19, 2015 by Editorial Team

A new book, featuring Kate Moss, Joan Collins and Victoria Beckham, offers a lesson in airport chic. Understated and in-the-know is the look to aim for

A brief history of underwear: V&A exhibition goes big on the smalls

December 25, 2019November 16, 2015 by Editorial Team

London museum to showcase fashion’s supporting cast, from 19th-century whalebone corsets and bustles to David Beckham’s modern boxers

Functionregalia: Classic coats and functional pieces mixed with elements of regalia for Spring Summer 2016

September 29, 2015September 29, 2015 by Editorial Team

Classic coats and functional pieces were mixed with elements of regalia including metallic cording, crested buttons and hand-embroidered military motifs were the highlights of the Burberry’s Womenswear Spring/Summer 2016 show. English lace and floor length satin dresses were paired with leather biker jackets, and regimental tailoring with tie-dye tulle. The latest collection introduced the Burberry Rucksack in gabardine-constructed nylon and the Belt Bag in black English suede. The Spring/Summer 2016 beauty look features satin skin with natural contouring and a strong lip.

Burberry’s Womenswear Spring-Summer 2016 show took place in a custom-built show venue in London’s Kensington Gardens, revealing the collection which was premiered through the first ever Snapchat Show.

In the latest chapter of the brand’s digital innovation story, Burberry followers were able to see a preview of the collection through the first ever Snapchat Show – looks from the collection were shared live as finishing touches were being made in Burberry’s headquarters in London – an industry, platform and brand first. Burberry’s show coverage on Snapchat also included a never-seen-before glimpse into the brand’s design studios, and featured a special appearance by Anna Wintour, receiving her invitation to the show, as well as live reactions on the red carpet from guests as they arrived.

Over 1000 guests attended including iconic Burberry campaign girls Kate Moss, Jourdan Dunn, Suki Waterhouse, Cara
Delevingne, and Sienna Miller alongside its newest stars Clara Paget, Holliday Grainger, Amber Anderson, Oscar
Tuttiett, Harry Treadaway and Tom Odell.

Other guests included Anna Wintour, director Baz Luhrmann, actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Chay Suede, Naomie Harris,
Rhodes, Paloma Faith, Tinie Tempah, Gabriel Day-Lewis and Yulia.

British singer Alison Moyet performed the live soundtrack to the show, accompanied by a 32-piece orchestra
conducted by Joe Duddell from an orchestra pit in the centre of the runway.

The performance was filmed for Burberry’s new, dedicated channel on Apple Music, which launched last week, making Burberry the first global brand to launch a channel on the platform. The full show soundtrack, “Alison Moyet Live for Burberry“, is available through the iTunes Store and for streaming through the Burberry Apple Music channel.

Madchester, grunge chic and Kate Moss: how the 90s shaped our world

December 25, 2019September 18, 2015 by Editorial Team

The decade when youth culture exploded in defiant hypercolour lives on – and not just in Channel 4’s This is England ’90. Former editor of the Face Sheryl Garratt explains how the E generation’s style excesses are making a comeback

Vogue centenary exhibition styles fashion bible as cultural record

December 25, 2019September 10, 2015 by Editorial Team

This article titled “Vogue centenary exhibition styles fashion bible as cultural record” was written by Hannah Marriott, for The Guardian on Monday 7th September 2015 16.19 UTC

At first glance, it’s all chiffon and glamour: Kate Moss in a huge hooped skirt, photographed by Mario Testino in 2008; David Hockney posing with a sequin-clad Maudie James in 1968, as captured by Cecil Beaton; Anne Gunning, swathed in pink in Jaipur in the 50s, looking away from Norman Parkinson’s lens.

But the National Portrait Gallery’s major spring exhibition, celebrating 100 years of British Vogue, will argue that it is much more than a style magazine.

“As well as the fashion bible it has now become, it is a cultural record of the times,” said current editor Alexandra Shulman at a launch event for Vogue 100, A Century of Style, on Monday. The exhibition, opening on 11 February next year, will launch the magazine’s centenary celebrations, which also include a behind-the-scenes BBC2 documentary.

A preview of the exhibition

British Vogue first hit newsstands in 1916 and – as with many desirable fashion brands – the ability to leverage this illustrious heritage has been key to the magazine’s success.

The exhibition will highlight British Vogue’s work with “the greatest photographers in modern history”, said curator Robin Muir, including Edward Steichen, Helmut Newton, Man Ray and Irving Penn, and will include portraits of Marlene Dietrich, Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon and Fred Astaire.

The show will also incorporate moments of recent fashion history, such as the 1990 Peter Lindbergh cover – featuring Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford – widely regarded as defining the supermodel era, and the notorious 1993 Corinne Day shoot that helped introduce Kate Moss, and so-called “heroin chic”.

Photograph by Cecil Beaton titled The Second Age of Beauty. — Photograph by Cecil Beaton titled The Second Age of Beauty is Glamour. Photograph: Cecil Beaton/Conde Nast Publications

Tellingly, as printed magazines fight to underline their relevance in the digital age, Vogue 100 will begin in the present day, with a room devoted to digital fashion film. Visitors will then “travel back in time to the 90s, with Herb Ritts and Corinne Day; to the 80s with Bruce Weber and Peter Lindbergh; to the 70s with Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin,” said Muir.

Finally, they will reach “the year zero and the quieter, beautiful, more meditative vintage masterworks of photographers such as Steichen and Man Ray,” he said.

Dr Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, said that the show would represent “a panoramic image of the last century”.

That view is, however, undeniably well-heeled and overwhelmingly white. Questioned about a lack of racial diversity, Shulman said: “[British Vogue] has been a reflection of our culture for 100 years and it has been predominantly white culture. I think we just have to accept that. Though there certainly are a number of non-white people in the exhibition.”

As Britain became a more multicultural society, that shift was reflected in the photography, Cullinan said.

“Something we should be very proud of, and which I have included in the exhibition, is that British Vogue was the first mainstream magazine to have a black cover model, Donyale Luna, shot by David Bailey in 1966,” said Muir.

David Hockney, Peter Schlesinger and Maudie James appear in the major exhibition celebrating 100 years of British Vogue. Photograph: Conde Nast Publications

“It’s not all rarefied clouds of pink chiffon,” said Muir, adding that unexpected exhibits would include “extraordinarily graphic depiction of war” taken during the 1940s by Lee Miller.

“Those are not the sort of images anyone ever expected to be commissioned by a magazine like Vogue – but Vogue did have its own war photographer,” he said. “Real life intrudes – particularly at the magazine’s start, during the first world war, and during the second world war and the 1960s, when you can see class barriers being broken down in its pages.”

Muir added that Vogue was as much about creating magic and fantasy as it was about reflecting reality. “Cecil Beaton once said, ‘when I die I want to go to Vogue’ – and without wishing to dismiss the competition, saying ‘when I die I want to go to Marie Claire’ does not have the same kind of resonance.”

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