I don't know Kate Moss, but I've always thought she's a cool chick.
She doesn't sell herself the way a lot of famous people do. But then that's mainly the domain of 'celebrities' and not of someone who's famous.
I see the difference between a famous person, and a celebrity as: famous is someone who has talent or works in a specific field, eg singer, actor, or in the case of Moss, a model.
A celebrity is someone who is in the limelight for their antics and not their talent, eg a reality TV 'star'.
Anyway, I consider Kate Moss to be a 'proper' famous person. She is a very successful model.
Whether you like her or not is irrelevant, she is successful and famous because she's worked hard to be where she is today. The fact that she still gets booked to front so many high-end fashion campaigns proves she is doing something right.
As I said at the beginning of this blog post, I've always considered Kate Moss to be a cool lady.
She's known for keeping her private life private, and not flogging photos of her family to the highest bidder, be that Hello, Heat, or some other well-known magazine etc.
I remember hearing her say, in a rare interview, that she credits her former lover Johnny Depp for his advice on how to keep her life private. Kate said Johnny Depp told her, 'Never complain, never explain.'
That sounds like good advise, and something Kate Moss has definitely followed.
So, Kate Moss, a woman who values her privacy, and agrees to appear on the cover and several pages in Playboy magazine.
This job is not like her usual jobs where she is being photographed to advertise clothes, accessories, or makeup.
The Playboy shoot is all about her.
What was she thinking?
It's none of my business why Kate Moss decided to do the Playboy spread.
Hmm, maybe spread is not the correct word. I don't know, I haven't seen the photos.
I'm not a prude, and I truly believe in 'live and let live', 'each to their own' etc. but I was a little surprised when I first read that Kate Moss was going to be appearing in Playboy magazine.
I don't understand why she did it.
I guess it could just be that she wanted to do the Playboy photo-shoot now, before it's too late. She is 39 and we all know that's considered old, and possibly past-it by the majority of the media.
Maybe she wanted the photos as something she can look back on when she's 90?
It's been reported that Kate did the Playboy shoot to celebrate her 40th birthday, which is in January 2014.
Yesterday the newspapers were full of photos of Kate Moss attending the 60th Anniversary Party of Playboy.
There were also lots of photos of Kate Moss attending the British Fashion Wards 2013 after party, with various other famous people including Tom Jones, Sienna Miller, Rosie Huntington-Whitely, Rita Ora, Alexa Chung, Matt Goss, Harry Styles, Daisy Lowe, Laura Bailey, Poppy Delevingne, Dermot O'Leary, Bob Geldof, Noel Gallagher, Sir Phillip Green, Jack Whitehall, Donatella Versace, Mary Charteris, Jo Wood, Marc Jacobs, Henry Holland, Miuccia Prada, and Fiona Young.
I'm not sure which of these famous people went from the British Fashion Awards 2013 party to the Playboy 60th Anniversary party, as I've read conflicting reports in the news, but some of them did attend both parties.
As I said I'm not a prude, but there's something uncool about Kate Moss posing for Playboy magazine.
And it seems uncool to me that the Playboy party was attended by famous females.
Sometimes I think women are their own worst enemies.
Women are too often treated as possessions, pieces of meat, playthings, and then someone as famous as Kate Moss poses for Playboy magazine. And her fellow famous female friends attend the Playboy celebrations party.
Women are considered second class citizens by a lot of people. They are treated as sex objects, belittled and abused daily.
I'm not sure Kate Moss posing for Playboy, and so many other women attending the party were thinking about anything other than what they were going to wear, or maybe just looking forward to a night out.
But by attending the Playboy party aren't they just confirming what some people think, that women are sex objects to be used and abused. Aren't they saying the degradation of women is fine - with them.
Playboy magazine is not a high end fashion magazine, it's a porn magazine.
Playboy is pornography, it's wank mag. Nothing more, nothing less.
I don't necessarily agree with the view that pornography causes men to rape women, and I truly think that women should be able to wear want they want, behave how they want, and say want they want, without their clothes or actions, being used as an excuse for sexual harassment or worse.
But unfortunately that's not how the World is.
There are those who think a scantily clad women is cheap, easy, fair game - you name it, we've all heard the derogatory terms banded about by ignorant people.
For the 60th anniversary issue of Playboy magazine Kate was photographed by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
I've only seen the cover shot via online news websites, and I don't think it's particularly good, and it's definitely not the best shot of Kate Moss that's ever graced a magazine cover.
In reality I'm sure she looked fabulous in her bunny girl costume of classic black satin, complete with a fluffy white pom-pom bunny tail, white collar and matching cuffs, and black satin bunny ears.
Of course she looked good, she is seriously photogenic, she has beautiful bone structure.
Kate Moss looks fab even without photoshop - for all those people who say she looks rough and they don't know how she became a 'supermodel' blah blah blah...........
I'm conflicted about how I really feel about Kate Moss posing for Playboy.
Part of me thinks good on ya girl. If that's what she wanted to do then good for her for having the balls to do it. Not literally though, I don't think Hugh Hefner would like that.
But I also think, No! It's not cool, it's not a good thing, I wish she hadn't agreed to do it.
What is cool though is the fact that Kate Moss won't give a toss about my opinion, or what anyone else thinks about her posing for Playboy magazine. She is always true to herself, and that's something to be admired.
I think that's enough of me rambling about Kate Moss and her Playboy photo shoot.
I've read this through, deleted it a few times, rewritten it, and I'm still not getting anywhere with what I wanted to say. Hey-ho I'm posting it anyway.
Disclaimer: I realise that this blog post is not particularly coherent. That's because my mind is foggy as I didn't get any sleep at all last night, I literally lay awake watching the hours pass.
And no, my lack of sleep wasn't because I was engrossed in the Kate Moss 60th Anniversary Issue of Playboy, although I know it's an edition that will keep lots of people up.
By posing for Playboy, do you think Kate Moss is endorsing pornography?
Or do you think it tasteful, and just a bit of harmless fun?
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