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Kate Moss: Model of Imperfection

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When I heard there was a biography on Kate Moss coming out, I could not wait, especially since this book received so much hype about how much it revealed.
Please! First of all, this is a very small book, just shy over 100 pages of actual writing. The rest of the pages are poor quality B&W pictures, and a huge section in the back of "notes," and a bibliography.
After finishing this book in one sitting, I had learned nothing new about Kate Moss. Every bit of information in this book is taken from old interviews Kate, Johnny Depp, and others, had done for different magazines.
I think this book was a waste of money, and is not worth it at all, not even for a die-hard fan.

I was disappointed because each chapter was only a short summary of previously written magazine articles and, hence, contained no new information. The author seemed to have no direct contact with either Kate Moss or those in the fashion industry. After reading this book, I learned nothing and gained no insight into the model.

my english teacher would give this an A if the assignment was to solely gather info from magazines. But where are the 1st person interviews? the author could have been way more resorceful! there are hundreds of people she could have interviewed to make this a stellar best seller it deserves to be. Kate Moss inspired a generation of young people. This book inspires nothing.

This book should be called "Johnny Depp" because it is more about her relationship with him than about herself. I expected a biography on her life but it's about how this super-waif got famous and then those who made her famous turned against her. Then the rest of the book was about her unhappy relationship with Johnny Depp. I really like Kate Moss and would like to have read a book about her...not her ex-boyfriend.

my friends and i just chose this for our monthly fashion-oriented book club (we've previously enjoyed easily appropriate selections like "the devil wears prada", etc.) and were unanimously disapointed (they all are about to write their own reviews here, though). maybe this could be good for someone who isn't already a Kate fan, or has never heard such things about models doing drugs or being too skinny - like people who live in a bio-sphere or something. i guess i just expected more indepth info - like, how about a FREAKIN' INTERVIEW WITH KATE HERSELF! - from an author who ran "the web's most popular Kate Moss site" for like 5 years. some "fan"!

the queens I go out dancing with provide more insight and witty commentary on Lady Kate than this thrown-together and obviously cheaply self-published piece (...). I wish I could get my money back, so I could buy things like the new issue of 'W', which features a Kate layout that is more inspiring and revealing than anything in this book. She was discovered in an airport? And criticized for being thin? I could've used more depth than 'duh'. I personally am a fan of coleslaw, and could write a more fascinating look at coleslaw than this so-called Kate-super-fan wrote about her hero.

My friends and I just read this as part of our new "Fashion-Group Book Club"...I didn't dislike it as much as they did, but it does give one reason to marvel at how much completely unspectacular writing and recycled bollocks make it to publication. It even came to us recommended so I'm surprised at how just-not-good it is. Even the pictures, the best part, are all ones I swear I've seen a million times before. So, if you're looking for photos of Kate, I remember a book that came out on her in the nineties, a lot more expensive of course, but that one was excellent. "Model of Imperfection": not recommended!

my friends all just read this and we're all disappointed in it, maybe someone who knows less about kate moss would get more from it. it IS articulate and factual, and it's not that it's BAD writing, it just didn't give us anything new to talk about. i wish there were other biographies - even if totally sensationalized! - about kate moss out there!

my recommendation? maybe a good beach-time or bus-ride read, but don't expect anything revealing.

Every year my friends and I make a special day out of January 16 to celebrate the birthday of our fashion idol Kate Moss. This year we bought fourteen copies of MODEL OF IMPERFECTION and distributed them among ourselves during our fun-filled bash. In the days that followed our Moss party I heard many grumblings about how badly the book was written, but I paid them no mind, ascribing the bad reviews to the general hangover of our group.

Also we've been worried about Kate Moss and her growing attachment to the Libertines' Pete Doherty, whose fascination with crack has emperiled our heroine and her beloved baby by Jefferson Hack.

Katherine Kendall's book doesn't find the space to cover these latest debelopments, but with a figure so stylish and dynamic as Kate Moss, it would be hard to write a book that could keep itself up-to-date--maybe regular CD-ROM supplements would do the trick? I liked the way she wrote about Kate Moss posing for Lucien Freud, it shows that she has a brain too, not just an appetite for sensation as a result of being brought up in a overly restictive family that would not allow her sweets. Kate Moss has had to battle a lot of problems, including the bad press engendered by her rampages through hotels during the Johnny Depp days, and people feeling that she has no talent, and the rumors about bulimia and anorexia, and yet every time she gets written off, she bounces right back looking prettier than ever! In our crowd, we consider her the Babe Paley of the 21st Century, than which there is no higher compliment.

And her little daughter, Lila Grace, is so cute. There are some good snaps of her in the Kendall book.

Yes, the book is filled with re-cycled interviews and other sources, but it isn't all that bad.

Perhaps next Katherine Kendall could write a book about the British actress slash comedienne Kay Kendall, whg was Kate Moss' spiritual ancestor back in the 1950s. Trivia--did you know that Kate has appeared in ten films--always as "Herself"? What other star can boast such a high ratio of appearances as herself?

Kate Moss: Model of Imperfection is an ok book.

While interesting, you don't really know Kate after completing the book.