“I’m not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I’ve never been to design school. I can’t sketch. I can’t cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.”
― Kate Moss
“No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!”
― Kate Moss
“You can be a pretty face, but if you’re not a nice person, it just doesn’t work. I’m not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I’m all right. If you’re a nice person, it definitely helps.”
― Kate Moss
“I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.”
― Kate Moss
“Then finally I said, ‘Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they’re doing and who’s involved. And I want to see the space.’ So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!”
― Kate Moss
“I like a scarf with a shirt; it throws it off a bit.”
― Kate Moss
“I edit things down, and I’ve got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I’m not going to wear but don’t want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.”
― Kate Moss
“I don’t like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.”
― Kate Moss
“It’s all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.”
― Kate Moss
“For makeup, a bit of blusher – what you call bronzer – a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.”
― Kate Moss
“If the plane lost all my luggage, and I was somewhere sunny like Ibiza, I would just get a bikini, shorts, T-shirt, and sandals. If it was somewhere colder like New York, I’d go for jeans, jacket, and a pair of Louboutins.”
― Kate Moss
“In my next life, I’m going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.”
― Kate Moss
“I’m happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it’s a weird, like, ‘Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?’”
― Kate Moss
“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”
― Kate Moss
“People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it’s easy to be chewed up and spat out. You’ve got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.”
― Kate Moss
“I wasn’t the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn’t think I was model material, that’s for sure.”
― Kate Moss
“I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she’s fabulous.”
― Kate Moss
“My favourite flowers are English country roses – I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.”
― Kate Moss
“Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.”
― Kate Moss
“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.”
― Kate Moss
“Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it’s me.”
― Kate Moss
“There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.”
― Kate Moss
“It sounds really corny but I think that if you’re beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.”
― Kate Moss
“There’s always a dinner to go to. There’re always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way.”
― Kate Moss
“It’s a sin to be tired.”
― Kate Moss
“It is quite amazing what I didn’t feel after a while. I didn’t really want to feel things.”
― Kate Moss
“I didn’t really have a mentor, but I have always definitely been inspired by the ’70s – the Stones, Patti Smith, Anita Pallenberg.”
― Kate Moss
“I’ll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi’s rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.”
― Kate Moss
“I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you’re on your own because I’m not traipsing around London ever again like that. It’s a nightmare.”
― Kate Moss
“I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn’t making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.”
― Kate Moss
“I try and be a little bit chic. I wouldn’t wear sweatpants. I wouldn’t wear a twinset.”
― Kate Moss
“I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn’t use to wear really that much, and I didn’t know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.”
― Kate Moss
“I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can’t be dirty.”
― Kate Moss
“Now I’m being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. – On being a social smoker.”
― Kate Moss
“I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I’d be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I’d get in, there wasn’t any room service. I didn’t eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You’d be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn’t eat it.”
― Kate Moss
“The first time I went to Johnny Depp’s house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn’t really know what that entailed.”
― Kate Moss
“I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn’t stop. It all became unbalanced.”
― Kate Moss
“I was amazed at the support that I got when I was in there. And when I came out people knew that I was back on track. I was interested in working again.”
― Kate Moss
“I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn’t really go to school as much as I should have.”
― Kate Moss
“I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.”
― Kate Moss
“Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.”
― Kate Moss
“Jam! I love my jam. I’ve just had a batch of it come through, I’ve been making it.”
― Kate Moss
“I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don’t want to be this skinny.”
― Kate Moss
“When you’re shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you’re playing, really.”
― Kate Moss
“The first time I went to New York, I went with my first boyfriend, Clark. His dad had just bought an apartment in New York, and my dad dropped us off, and we were there for a week on our own. I must have been 15 or 16. I remember I went to Harlem and bought a goose jacket. That was the hip, hot thing.”
― Kate Moss
“Lipstick is iconic. It’s the one product that marks out an era, and a certain lip colour can define a season. It makes me feel more ‘done’. I wear a beige lip in the day, but red when I’m going somewhere – it makes that transition from day to night. I just slick it on; I don’t bother with lipliner.”
― Kate Moss
“I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I’m amazing with gravy. That’s my speciality; even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I’m very proud of my gravy.”
― Kate Moss
“I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.”
― Kate Moss
“I always put on Chanel No 5 after I’ve had a bath or before I go to bed. If I’m going out, I’ll layer other fragrances on top.”
― Kate Moss
“I don’t go, ‘I’m in the papers all the time,’ because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I’m still like, ‘Ooh, look- there’s me!’ I’m never like, ‘Wow, look at me on the bus.’ You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.”
― Kate Moss
“Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York – because otherwise I don’t walk anywhere – and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, ‘Are you all right?’ and she was still taking pictures.”
― Kate Moss
“At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.”
― Kate Moss
“When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I’m just a face or a body to them.”
― Kate Moss
“What people say isn’t going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.”
― Kate Moss
“There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn’t realize it.”
― Kate Moss
“People don’t hear me talk. They don’t expect me to.”
― Kate Moss
“Now I can walk into a room full of people I don’t know and do my job. That’s quite a massive thing to learn, I think.”
― Kate Moss
“I’d go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.”
― Kate Moss
“I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.”
― Kate Moss
“I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.”
― Kate Moss
“I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.”
― Kate Moss
“I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn’t looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.”
― Kate Moss
“I like creating images.”
― Kate Moss
“I have made some of the best friends that I’ve got in this business.”
― Kate Moss
“Everyone’s projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I’m being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.”
― Kate Moss
“All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn’t see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.”
― Kate Moss
“All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there’s always a party to go to.”
― Kate Moss
“Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.”
― Kate Moss
“I have met almost everyone I’ve wanted to meet.”
― Kate Moss
“Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!”
― Kate Moss
“I am not a fashion freak!”
― Kate Moss
“Going to the gym wouldn’t be on my list of favorite things to do.”
― Kate Moss
“You go to a show, and there’s no food at all, so if you’re doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.”
― Kate Moss
“I really work. I like feeling that I’ve nailed it, and we’ve got the picture.”
― Kate Moss
“Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren’t they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.”
― Kate Moss
“My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline – she always says, ‘Mummy, keep the door open,’ when I’m filling up the car. I’ve heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world – maybe that’s something to study for my next fragrance!”
― Kate Moss
“Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don’t want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, ‘What do I want to wear?’ and, ‘What do I want to do with Topshop?’ It all kind of leads into the other things.”
― Kate Moss
“I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn’t a model. I’d go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that’s the plan.”
― Kate Moss
“Lila can’t be a model until she’s at least 21. She is already a mini-me – it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.”
― Kate Moss
“It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.”
― Kate Moss
“I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.”
― Kate Moss
“I’ve got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.”
― Kate Moss
“People that don’t know me get ‘Mossed’. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it’s always fun, and a good time.”
― Kate Moss
“I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I’m a Londoner at heart.”
― Kate Moss
“Topshop is the only brand I’ve ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.”
― Kate Moss
“My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She’ll say, ‘No, Mummy, you can’t wear that.’ She’s very good. I do trust her instinct.”
― Kate Moss
“I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.”
― Kate Moss
“I am so romantic about Gypsies. They’re not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.”
― Kate Moss
“I hate being interviewed. I’m like, ‘Aaaarrgghh!’ I don’t like talking about myself.”
― Kate Moss
“I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, ‘Don’t do that to your skin! Don’t pull it like that!’ And I’m like, ‘Really?’”
― Kate Moss
“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.”
― Kate Moss
“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.”
― Kate Moss
“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.”
― Kate Moss
“People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish ‘featureless suburb’ of Croydon.”
― Kate Moss
“Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn’t believe that I do work hard.”
― Kate Moss
“I didn’t realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn’t. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.”
― Kate Moss
“I was doing things that weren’t good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I’ve done for ages.”
― Kate Moss
“I would say I’m self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she’d make me take off my top, and I’d cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you’re not self-conscious anymore.”
― Kate Moss
“I’m definitely low maintenance, but I do have a lot of massages, and I have this girl who comes to my house to do my nails. My friends will come over ,and we’ll all get our nails done or have waxes.”
― Kate Moss
“I love the Sixties with Julie Christie and Jane Birkin – those natural English beauties. That’s the look that is most me, when I wore the tight-to-the knee dresses. I don’t think I bleached my hair until I was 20. I like experimenting for big occasions, though. You’ve always got to do a bit of a number for the birthday!”
― Kate Moss
“I’ve got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I’ll go and do it for a laugh. I don’t want to be a pop star or anything like that.”
― Kate Moss
“I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it.”
― Kate Moss
“That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn’t she? I quite like her.”
― Kate Moss
“I’ve met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn’t been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.”
― Kate Moss
“Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don’t walk around like, ‘Oh, I’m trying to be famous’ – I try to lead as normal a life as possible – but sometimes it’s annoying. It’s fine; it’s not a massive problem, but sometimes it’s just a bit uncomfortable.”
― Kate Moss
“I don’t think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.”
― Kate Moss
“I’ve met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, ‘And this is Kate,’ and I put my hand out, and he didn’t put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!”
― Kate Moss
“I hate dentists. That’s why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn’t go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.”
― Kate Moss
“I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they’d start sending limos for me, and I was like, ‘That is so embarrassing. I’m not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.’ That whole New York thing of, ‘You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you’re fabulous!’”
― Kate Moss
“I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.”
― Kate Moss
“My signature jam is damson or quince, and it’s called ‘Kate’s Sweet and Sticky’. Basically, I’m a domestic goddess.”
― Kate Moss
“I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that’s what it’s called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.”
― Kate Moss
“I was lucky to be with Johnny… he taught me a lot about fame.”
― Kate Moss
“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.”
― Kate Moss
“If I’m going to work, I put black jeans on, a T-shirt, a shirt, and a jacket.”
― Kate Moss
“At a shoot, I’m really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can’t see what they’re doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can’t see what they’ve done. I know how to compose myself.”
― Kate Moss
“I used to be so scared about, ‘Oh, I don’t want to show my body.’ Now that I’ve shown it, it doesn’t bug me about my moles, or ‘This isn’t big enough’ and ‘That’s not smooth enough.’”
― Kate Moss
“With confidence, I think anyone can get a dress and make it their own. I don’t think you should have it off the runway and wear it like they want you to wear it. You know, with their hair and makeup – their woman. I just think it’s boring. You have to make it your own. That’s what fashion is all about.”
― Kate Moss
“I’m uncomfortable publicizing myself as a model. I can only say over and over again, ‘That’s what I do,’ and let people make fun of me.”
― Kate Moss
“When you’re in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, ‘I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,’ it makes you go, ‘No.’ I didn’t want to work all the time.”
― Kate Moss
“I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.”
― Kate Moss
“I always go to sleep on the plane. Then I try and stay up whenever I get where I’m going to and get straight into the time zone I’m in.”
― Kate Moss
“I have the whole costume from Playboy’s sixtieth-anniversary cover shoot.”
― Kate Moss
“I have lost a lot of clothes over the years… Probably the oldest garment that I still have would be my Union Jack jacket from John Galliano’s spring/summer 1993 show.”
― Kate Moss
“I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.”
― Kate Moss
“I’m still having fun, and I’m doing something and I’m seeing the world! I wasn’t massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.”
― Kate Moss
“Every season, I’m like, ‘Who knows if I’m going to get another job?’”
― Kate Moss
“I’m always thinking, ‘My goodness, I got booked again!’ So I am really happy to still be working.”
― Kate Moss
“I’m not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.”
― Kate Moss
“I don’t mind a bikini bottom.”
― Kate Moss
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