Customer Reviews

Kate Moss: Style

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I enjoyed this book, it's well-written and has lots of good pictures, but I'm still trying to figure out if Kate Moss really has as much style as admirers say, or if she just looks great in everything and admirers want to think she is stylish. A lot has been said about how well she puts things together. But I think I found as many outfits in this book that I did not think were stylish as I did those that were stylish.

She looks most stylish in the classics, like a yellow chiffon Marilyn Monroe-style dress or a black sweater with a black satin pencil skirt and T-strap sandals. But we all look better in the classics. When she takes chances like wearing skin-tight jeans, booties, and lots of layers on top, sometimes she looks fabulous and sometimes she looks like she tried and failed. But we'd all look fabulous part of the time and less so the rest if we had her looks. And even more so with the designer clothes she has access to. Unless we had no fashion sense at all.

She has almost perfect genetics. A beautiful face with wide-spaced eyes (but not too wide), a bow mouth, great jawline, and a figure that curves in and slopes out at all the right places and in the right proportions. And somehow she keeps the weight off so her figure makes any piece of clothing drape well. She could tie a garbage bag around her waist and she'd still look good even if her outfit didn't. One thing she does well is not over-accessorizing. She's pretty understated in the jewelry department and it suits her well besides adding class. She'll wear a diamond tennis necklace here and there or dangle earrings; just enough to set off her outfit, but not too much. She's a minimalist and brought in the minimalist movement after the 80s. So a minimalist with a closet full of designer clothes probably comes off pretty stylish.

So, it's a fun book if you are interested in Kate Moss. 4 stars of fun. I'm just unconvinced as of yet about it's premise.

This is an awesome book with a detailed history of Kate Moss and her clothing style as it has evolved over the years. I just wish it had more and larger pictures of the clothes.

I was so pleased to hear about this book on Kate Moss coming out that I had to get it right away. She is one of the most fashionable women on the planet--if not THE most fashionable. I loved the book. It's not so much eye popping fashion she wears as it is eye-catching. So, so glad the industry finally gave us this one. It's totally worth it. I also recommend, along with this one, Influence.

I want another book, a companion piece... I love this book if only to look at the pictures: A fun mix of formal magazine print and informal paparazzi pictures. It's great to see the contrast in personal and professional and how they have influence one another.
Such an inspiration, I keep it on a table near the closet for fashion ideas.

I hope a sequel will be released as a companion, with Kate Moss' wedding soon to arrive! Sure to be beautiful.