Kate Moss gave an interview to Women’s Wear Daily to promote her new perfume, “Vintage” as well as her clothing line at Topshop. WWD notes that Kate is also developing a hair care line, and is looking to develop her own makeup line to go with her clothing and perfume line. Now, while I don’t hate Kate or anything, I really don’t agree with the hip fashion people who consider her the kind of groundbreaking style icon who always looks great and/or cool. Some of the stuff Kate wears is interesting, and I recognize that she definitely has a “look”, but most of time she looks like what she is – a tired, strung-out, cokehead party girl, albeit a party girl who keeps her junk together a lot better than someone like Lindsay Lohan. Anyway, the interview is slightly interesting, because Kate rarely gives interviews, and because she’s a lot more self-deprecating than I was expecting. She claims one of her mottos is “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” but she admits she doesn’t really adhere to it:

WWD: How do you define beauty?
Kate Moss: It sounds really corny, but I think that if you’re beautiful inside, it shows on the outside for sure. 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.

WWD: Do you have a mentor?
KM: My close friends, probably. 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. They would say, “Oh no, Kate, that’s not a good look.”

WWD: Do you have a motto?
KM: There are loads. There’s “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” That’s one of them. You try and remember, but it never works.

WWD: You’re a business woman as well as a fixture in front of the camera. What’s the secret to effective multitasking?
KM: I think women are really good at multitasking. Men just cannot do it. My boyfriend cannot talk on the phone and [answer] if I ask him a question or get dressed at the same time. I can do all of that—talk on the phone, answer a question, get dressed and put my makeup on all at the same time. Women just do, don’t they? I think it’s something to do with babies. When you have a child, you have to be able to multitask.

WWD: It’s been rumored that you’re keen to build a career in music. Is that true?
KM: No. I like to dabble. 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.

WWD: Whose style do you admire?
KM: Loulou de la Falaise, Amanda Harlech and Catherine Deneuve.

WWD: High maintenance or low?
KM: Definitely not [high maintenance].

[From Women’s Wear Daily]

Several years ago, back before Kate gave birth to her daughter and she was still the face of the waif trend, I read a defense of Kate’s body type in a men’s magazine. The guy who wrote the article acknowledged that Kate was too skinny for his tastes, but he still thought she was beautiful because she looked like a naturally slender, well-proportioned woman. Personally, I think Kate looks better after becoming a mother, because she’s “filled-out” a bit more, and I can’t count all of her bones. I don’t have any doubt that Kate starved herself at various times (and the drugs probably helped too), but I like that she now acknowledges that she can’t even adhere to her own “starve yourself to look good” motto.

Kate Moss (with boyfriend Jamie Hince) leaving J Sheekey restaurant in London on November 13, 2009. Credit: Zibi/WENN.