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Let Them Eat Kate

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AGE OF QUARREL Kate
The party-ravaged Kate Moss you know from those paparazzi snaps, Vogue insists, is only half the story. Moss, the magazine's August cover girl, sat down for a fawning interview with writer Plum Sykes in London, and talked business: her perfume, her clothing line for Topshop, and her gazillions of dollars.

Moss, it's been said, rarely does interviews, but she had little to fear from Sykes, who describes the 34-year-old model as "kittenish," "cheeky," with just a few "tiny creases" around her eyes before going on to laud her fashion designs as "extraordinarily desirable." Still, a few interesting details do manage to slip through.

Buried between details about her penchant for Stella McCartney and plain old aviators, the model takes a fabulous, passive-aggressive swipe at model Irina Lazareanu, who modeled for the first Kate Moss Topshop collection. Explaining why she decided to step in and do future campaigns for the brand herself, Moss sniped, "I just sell." The firing, we're sure, had nothing to do with rumors that Lazareanu was briefly engaged to Moss's ex, Pete Doherty.

Then again, Moss isn't the only one adept at being passive-aggressive. Sure, Moss scored the August cover of Vogue: the only catch? It's the "Age Issue."

For our take on the wild ways of Kate, check out this profile from Radar's archives.

By Sarah Horne   07/18/08 1:45 PM
Related: Irina Lazareanu, Kate Moss, Style File, Topshop, Vogue
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