Can the masses carry off Moss’s style?
So, we’re supposed to be thrilled that Sir Philip Green of Arcadia has persuaded Kate Moss to design a range for Topshop. Moss’s inimitable off-duty look is based on wearing clothes no one else would or could and sprinkling her fairy dust of cool over it. Viz: Hunter wellies, barely-there shift dresses, ultra-fitted leather trousers, denim micro-shorts, leopard-print mini-dresses, scuffed pixie boots and ancient skinny scarves.
You can mass-produce this stuff, but asking the masses to wear it is just unfair. Walk down any high street and you’ll observe the terrible trickle-down effect of Kate’s style on the ordinary
British teenager (jeans which turn legs into sausages, ill-considered vintage footwear). Imagine the effect of own-label Kate.
SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT
Don't blame models for anorexia
Fashion week parties
Like much edgy fashion, the magic comes from the piquant contrast between slim thigh and gumboot, or ethereal beauty and tarty frock. You sort of need both for it to work. Which is why you’re going to have to be very gorgeous indeed to wear the Moss range.
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