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Dazed & Confused Celebrates 20 Years with Kate Moss, Katie Grand

fashionologie — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:37:40 PDT

>> “It’s a pretty big night, alright,” said Dazed & Confused founder Jefferson Hack, in the midst of celebrating the magazine's 20 years last night with a commemorative exhibit at London's Somerset House. He was joined by Sarah Burton, Christopher Kane, and Gareth Pugh; Dazed co-founders Katie Grand and Rankin; and ex-girlfriend Kate Moss, who at the exhibit's entrance, stated, “If only I could remember half the photos I’ve done with Dazed, I might be able to tell you my favorite," adding: "If I could get through the crowds into the exhibition I might be able to jog my memory.”

Hack, for his part, remembers one set: he recently talked about how he first met Moss - on a 1999 Dazed shoot, for which she was naked. "That was the shoot where I first met Kate. I was taken aback by how chatty and uninhibited she was - that unguarded thing was really captivating." During the accompanying interview with Moss, Hack said he added in the question: "There's been a lot of different men mentioned in your life recently, but no one permanent relationship. Is there no one out there good enough for you?" They ended up dating for four years and producing a daughter, before splitting in 2004. "I saw Lila last night," says Hack. "I see her lots. I have a lovely family and Kate's a great mum."

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Gypsies Convinced Kate Moss To Get Married, She Tells September Vogue

fashionologie — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:18:20 PDT

>> Kate Moss tells Vogue's September 2011 issue - which she covers - that after a romantic trip to Thailand two years into her relationship with Jamie Hince, “we were just so loved up, and he asked me to marry him every day.” So what made her finally take the plunge, at 37? Apparently, the British TV series Big Fat Gypsy Weddings. “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!”

“I’ve met them all throughout the years,” Mario Testino - who captured Vogue's extensive portfolio of Moss's wedding (she shifted her wedding date from Saturday to Friday to accommodate Testino's schedule) - says of Kate's past paramours, “but [Jamie] is the most real. He has a great sense of humor.”

But, as the wedding date nears, Hince “is terrified,” says Moss. As for herself: “Let’s put it this way. 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!’”

Of her vision of the wedding, Moss says: “I wanted it to be kind of dreamy and 1920s, when everything is soft-focus. 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!”

It follows, then, that John Galliano, who designed Moss's wedding dress, was inspired by Jazz Age photographs of F. Scott's wife Zelda Fitzgerald. Moss says 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!”

As Vogue tells it: Moss and Galliano "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?' The skirts are symbolically licked with the beaded plumes of a mythical phoenix, 'delicate and defiant, like Kate.'"

"She dared me to be John Galliano again,” the designer added. “I couldn’t pick up a pencil. It’s been my creative rehab.” The relationship goes both ways, though. Just before Moss, ever the model, sets off to her wedding church she requests “a few words, a story to inspire her - she loves a bit of direction!” Galliano says. “I told her, ‘You have a secret - you are the last of the English roses - and when he lifts your veil he’s going to see your wanton past!’”

Later, the favor is returned: When Kate's father thanks Galliano for “the beautiful dress,” every wedding guest stands in ovation, causing the designer's eyes to well up.

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The Honeymoon's Over - Kate Moss and Jamie Hince Are Back in London

fashionologie — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:21:15 PDT

>> Kate Moss and Jamie Hince's honeymoon - spent tooling around the Mediterranean in Sir Philip Green's yacht near Portofino, St. Tropez, and Corsica - has ended a little shorter than the predicted two weeks, perhaps due to an earthquake near Corsica. But not before they received a couple of unique honeymoon gifts: Terry de Havilland sent Moss a pair of scarlet snakeskin stillettos with "F*ck you" spelled out in Swarovski crystals on one sole and "F*ck me" spelled out on the other; and another friend reportedly let Banksy into Moss and Hince's house while they were gone so that the graffiti artist could do a mural in their bathroom.

Moss and Hince were spotted out at dinner with a friend at The Wolseley last night in London, and then running errands to the White Cube contemporary art gallery in London today with Moss's daughter Lila Grace Hack.

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Kate Moss the Bride - A First Look at Her Zelda Fitzgerald-Inspired Galliano Dress

fashionologie — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:17:47 PDT

>> A few pictures are starting to roll in of Kate Moss heading to her wedding in a silver Rolls Royce, her father Peter and 8-year-old daughter Lila Grace Hack (who's set to serve as her chief bridesmaid and is said to be wearing Stella McCartney) by her side. Her dress, confirmed to be designed by John Galliano, is lightly sequined, and her shoes are confirmed to be Manolo Blahniks with blue lining - as in "something blue" - rather than Christian Louboutin as previously thought.

The wedding dress was inspired by Zelda Fitzgerald, whose engagement ring Moss is wearing. Galliano did the final fitting earlier this week in Europe, while in care, WWD reports. “Kate is his biggest muse and he was never, ever going to let his friend down,” one source said. “He did Kate’s 21st birthday dress, her 30th birthday dress, and Galliano’s show was the first she ever walked for. So this wedding day ties up a lot of things beautifully.”

Moss is expected to make a number of outfit changes this evening, Vogue UK reports, three of which will be designed by her close friend Stella McCartney. For her first dance, Moss will wear an oyster silk chiffon dress with embroidered bodice and a cut-out back, then she'll change into a mini body-con dress with a plunging back and beading all over. Finally, for her going-away suit, she'll wear a single-breasted, three-piece white wool suit.

Naomi Campbell (wearing Givenchy couture by Riccardo Tisci), Stella McCartney (in a white, tailored look of her own design), Daphne Guinness (in a light blue dress of her own design), Philip Treacy, Carine Roitfeld (in vintage Galliano), Emmanuelle Alt (in Balmain), and Anna Wintour (in a Mondrian-inspired Prada dress) are all understood to have attended the ceremony.

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Kate Moss, Jamie Hince Reportedly Engaged!

fashionologie — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:58:51 PST

>> Kate Moss was spotted wearing a brand-new diamond ring on her ring finger today - and although she's worn diamond rings on that finger in the past (and been rumored to be engaged a number of times before), The Sun is reporting that she plans to marry her boyfriend Jamie Hince on July 2. A spokesperson for Moss's agency, Storm Models, didn't deny the reports: "We are making no comment. That may change later in the day, but at the moment there is no comment."

Apparently Hince, 40, proposed in bed on Tuesday night after Moss, 37, had turned out the lights to go to sleep, presenting her with a vintage 1920s engagement ring; Moss's daughter, Lila Grace Hack, is said to be acting as maid of honor. Moss and Hince were introduced by mutual friend Sadie Frost at one of his The Kills' gigs in September 2007.

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Supermodels Hit the Beach Pre-New Year's, from Cabo to St. Barts to Thailand

fashionologie — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:58:52 PST

>> Just before the new year, models have headed to the beach in hordes - supermodels, in particular. Just this morning, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, and Bar Rafaeli were snapped in Cabo catching some sun together. And yesterday, Stephanie Seymour was spotted frolicking in the water with her family in St. Barts, while Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, her boyfriend Jason Statham, and Alessandra Ambrosio logged some yacht time in St. Barts last night. Kate Moss, for her part, has yet to hit the beach, but she was snapped at the airport yesterday with Jamie Hince and Lila Grace Hack - and she's rumored to have been headed to Thailand for her own beach holiday.

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Camp Kate Moss Denies New Rumors of Her Marriage to Jamie Hince

fashionologie — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:10:52 PDT

>> Rumors popped up in late August that Kate Moss and Jamie Hince had quietly gotten hitched - after the two were spotted wearing what appeared to be wedding rings during a two-week vacation in Italy.

This morning, the Daily Mirror reported that Hince and Moss were married on Aug. 7, in Sicily at a small church - Kate supposedly wore a see-through white dress and went barefoot at the intimate ceremony, with Hince in a dark suit and Moss's daughter Lila Grace Hack serving as ring-bearer. Apparently only a handful of guests were invited, and a "friend" is cited saying: "The plans were kept very quiet as Kate wanted the day to be low key and purely a celebration of their love. She’s never been one for convention or tradition, but Jamie’s been there for her through thick and thin, and she simply felt the time was right. They planned the day for weeks and were so excited. Kate didn’t want a stuffy, formal do, but something spiritual. Minutes after tying the knot, the giggling newlyweds were outside the church, dancing under trees. It was an incredibly happy day."

The couple were spotted wearing the same rings as recently as yesterday, but camp Moss is still denying that she has gotten married. One of the model's staff told the Daily Mail Moss is "definitely not married. Any implication she is . . . is factually incorrect." And Moss's agent denied the marriage rumors to Vogue UK.

fashionologie — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:51:55 PST

>> THE MODELIZER -Kate Moss may have had a false alarm this weekend - she flew out to New York for a two day photoshoot with W Magazine, but discovered upon arrival at JFK airport that the shoot had been cancelled - so she supposedly asked the magazine to foot her flight bill, and then headed straight back to London so she could attend Stella McCartney's store holiday lights ceremony with Lila Grace today. [The Mirror, Chic Report]

Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone Get Their Beach On With Kate Moss

fashionologie — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:53:16 PDT

>> Honeymoon or not, Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone have landed off the coast of Ibiza in Formentera, spending some quality time with Kate Moss and Lila Grace on the beach yesterday. Lorenzo may not have "Marc Jacobs" tattooed on his forearm like Marc's former beau Jason Preston, but he did show his brand loyalty by carrying a Richard Prince Louis Vuitton for a beach bag.

Lila Grace looked shy while Kate and Lorenzo were chatting it up, but she pulled out a camera to snap a portrait of the group later. Kate, Sir Philip Green, and now Marc Jacobs — the Ibiza area is definitely still the fashion vacation destination of choice.
*image: source

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Lila Grace Hearts Kate Moss

fashionologie — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:02:48 PDT

North London, June 25.

*image: ramey