Fashion world stripped bare

KATE Moss has confessed she hated posing topless at the start of her modelling career. In an American television interview, she says she felt pressurised as a teenager into taking her clothes off — first by photographer Corinne Day and later by Mario Sorrenti, who was her boyfriend at the time.

‘ I wouldn’t let my daughter do it,’ she said, referring to her only child, Lila Grace Moss Hack. ‘I look at her now and she’s 15, and to think that I was going topless at her age is crazy.’

It is more than that — it is shocking, even by lax, arty fashion-world standards. Yet at the time everyone seemed to believe it was fine. What were we all thinking?

Apparently things have improved. Kate claims that young models today ‘don’t have to do it if they don’t want to’. Still, isn’t it a shame they are still being asked?

Meanwhile, 44- year- old Mossy is still modelling topless, with last year’s racy shoot for W magazine a particular pinnacle. Or two.

Girls, the message here from Kate is don’t do as I do, do as I say, wahey!