5 Surprising Things We Learned From This Rare Kate Moss Interview

This is undoubtedly the year of Kate Moss. Between appearing on the upcoming Ab Fab movie and her collaboration with French fashion label Equipment, the British fashion icon is back to school a whole new generation of girls in the art of being cool. Taking time to sit down with The EDIT, Net-A-Porter's weekly fashion magazine, the supermodel revealed a whole new side to herself. Here, we share the five most surprising things we gleaned from her interview.

On how Bowie always supported her:

“I knew he would always have my back. Like Lee [Alexander] McQueen. There are people who believe in you, that don’t give a s*** what people say. And [Bowie] was one of them. He would read [or] he heard stuff, and he would check in, ‘Are you alright?’ When Bowie [sticks up for you], you feel better: ‘It’s fine, Bowie loves me, I don’t care what others think.’”

On the first time she met Prince:

“I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince. [It was] with Donatella [Versace]; I was lying down on Donatella’s bed, in her suite, and she was talking about him, and I was like, ‘Why do you keep talking about Prince?’ And she went, ‘He’s there!’ I sat up, and he was sitting at the end of the bed. Oh my god, I couldn’t talk. Or look at him, really. [But then] I was like, ‘You should buy one of these catsuits, they’re amazing!’ You know, it was that sequin all-in-one catsuit I was wearing...”

On where she stores her fashion archive and trying to shop for her daughter:

“I’ve got a special, secret place. I’m not telling [where] or somebody will burgle me. I learned the Rolling Stones have an archive and nobody knows where it is, even their children! I’ve lost a lot of stuff over the years, but I’ve still got some. I’ll save it for my daughter [Lila Grace, 13, with former partner Jefferson Hack]. I bought her an Ossie Clark dress, you know the one that Twiggy wore in that Richard Avedon [shoot], that white chiffon with leaves on? [Lila] doesn’t like anything at the moment. Fingers crossed [she will].”

On being a parent:

“No, I don’t [nag about homework], because [Lila] knows, she does it on her own. No, I’ll go like this [she lifts her sunglasses and stares] and I don’t have to say anything. You’ve got to get a look down. Girls, you have to scare them, otherwise they will take over.”

On loving a good joke:

“I just like comedy; I like taking the p*** out of myself. I’m comfortable with that. I wouldn’t feel comfortable being serious.”

Read the supermodel's full interview here, and see the best pieces from her collaboration with Equipment here.

By Pakkee