Hattie Crisell writing for "The Cut" (a subset of New York Magazine's web site) recently featured a 10th anniversary issue of AnOther magazine ... yes, a magazine's online presence featured another magazine, titled another! The world of fashion is such a self-perpetuating place that it puts iskm's idea of appropriation to shame.
That being said, in reading her piece, there is a sense that Ms.Hattie was not only a little tired of kate but also of the overly referential nature of her business ... here are some snippets (removing as many commercial references as possible as being subversive doesn't include encouraging you, dear reader, to actually go out and buy, or buy-into, any of this):
"Knowing that the world’s hunger for information about Kate Moss can never be sated, AnOther magazine has helpfully produced a mega–Kate Moss issue for superfans ... to mark the ten-year anniversary of her first shoot for the magazine and features Kate on four separate covers ... the most she’s ever done for a single issue of a magazine."
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| another four covers |
Hattie then goes on to highlight the "ten things we learned" from reading the magazine (which, we are proud to admit we have not done, so don't take iskm at our word as we can't be trusted). Here is Hattie's list with her musings included:
"1. Kate played tambourine (in a sultry manner, no doubt) on two Oasis songs: 'Fade Away' (1994) and 'Don’t Go Away' (1998).
2. In 1992, she starred in the TV movie Inferno!, directed by Ellen von Unwerth.
3. She shares her birthday (January 16) with many other charismatic celebrity Capricorns, including the late Susan Sontag and Aaliyah.
4. The most-visited Kate Moss fan site is KateMossOnline.net
5. According to AnOther, she’s started seven major trends, including gladiator sandals, grey skinny jeans, ballet flats, and vintage. (Vintage? Really?)
6. She opened John Galliano’s first ever show in Paris in 1989, at age 15.
7. Her first music-video appearance was in Love Don’t Bother Me by Stage Dolls in 1991.
8. Her 2007 bangs were inspired by Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface.
9. She's been the subject of artworks by Banksy, Damien Hirst, Lucian Freud, and Tracey Emin, among many others.
10. She has a small heart tattoo on her right palm.
And sometimes, very late at night, when she’s on her second pack of cigarettes, she spends hours Googling facts about you."
Ok iskm needs to weigh in on some of these "facts":
- #3 kate shares a birthday with Susan Sontag! To that, all that can be said is: "Everyday life apotheosized, and the kind of beauty that only the camera reveals - a corner of material reality that the eye doesn't see at all or can't normally isolate; or the overview, as from a plane - these are the main targets of the photographers conquest." Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1973
- #5 Gladiator Sandals! Didn't that start with, well, gladiators? Or Russel Crowe? Maybe Xena: Warrior Princess? And kudos Hattie for calling them out on vintage ... um, Brand New, You're Retro
- #8 No comment as to the cocaine connection please. But I am reminded of one of Michelle's best lines from Scarface which kate may also have taken for inspiration: "Nothing exceeds like excess. You should know that, Tony."
- #9 Can you believe that they have left out all iskm contributors!?!
and, oh yeah,
- #4 the most visited kate moss fan site may have been hacked. Thanks Anon.
All up, how many other kate's does the world need? We applied our own four color theorem and came up with the answer which has dutifully been submitted to the www.ishotkatemoss.com collage:
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| Another four covers ... iskm seeing quardruple |
And just as kate discovers when googling "ishotkatemoss" late at night,
we like to Observe. Slow Down. Shoot. Submit.
we like to Observe. Slow Down. Shoot. Submit.
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