How Kate Moss played Maid Marian in Blackadder
...and if you think that’s bizarre, read these 50 things you never knew about the supermodel on the day she turns 50
27 SHE does the gardening in £170 Chelsea boots.
28 …USING a nine-litre Spear & Jackson watering can from the Yorkshire brand’s Kew gardens collection (£40.99).
29 SHE has the pick of the world’s finest fragrances, but one of her favourites is the relatively affordable Acqua di Rose (£33) by the venerable Florentine pharmacy Santa Maria novella (est 1221), which she likes to apply to her face and body after a shower.
30 SHE is fiercely loyal to her glam squad, and has been having her blonde hair tended to by the same colourist, nicola Clarke, for decades.
31 HER go-to hairdressers are her friends Sam McKnight and James Brown.
32 LIKE many of us, her favourite comfort food is mashed potato — only hers is with sour cream and Princesse d’isenbourg caviar.
33 ONE of her favourite books is the feminist bestseller Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola estes.
34 SHE achieves her famous ‘ smoky leg’ look with £35 Wolford nylon tights.
35 KATE is good friends with the artist Jake Chapman, who with his brother Dinos earned the nickname ‘The Brothers grim’ for their controversial output in the 1990s.
36 SHE’S also best friends with Chapman’s wife, model and nutritionist Rosemary Ferguson.
37 FERGUSON’S daughters, elfie and Bliss, are signed to Kate Moss’s eponymous modelling agency — as is Kate’s 21 year old daughter Lila.
38 KATE may have appeared on the cover of countless magazines but, in 2010, she also appeared on the cover of Bryan Ferry’s album, Olympia.
39 SHE opined in an interview that a quote attributed to her, ‘ nothing tastes as good as skinny feels’, was taken out context, adding: ‘i think i was a scapegoat for a lot of people’s problems. i was never anorexic, i never have been.’
40 SHE’S familiar with being on best-dressed lists, but in 2008 she appeared on a worstdressed list — by animal rights group Peta for wearing fur.
41 IN 2002 she duetted with her friend, Bobby gillespie from rock band Primal Scream, on Some Velvet Morning, the 1967 song by Lee hazlewood and nancy Sinatra. Despite receiving heavy airplay on radio, it only made it to no
44 IN the UK charts.
42 HER relationship with troubled musician Pete Doherty is well documented: less so were her contributions to his albums. Of the 12 songs on his band Babyshambles’ second album, Shotter’s nation, four feature Kate’s vocals, and credit her as a co-writer.
43 IN A recent TV documentary with Louis Theroux, Doherty revealed that one of his pet icks about Kate when they dated between 2005 and 2007 was how she would order Coca-Cola via her assistant. ‘i learnt Donald Trump does the same thing, and it put me off a bit,’ he added.
44 SHE has DJed at a number of events including at a Miu Miu party in 2017.
45 AS BeFiTS one of the most famous supermodels of all time, she’s had a slew of products named after her (including Saint Laurent’s Kate bag, far left), most recently a pink-toned lipstick, nude Kate, above, created by her longtime friend Charlotte Tilbury. ‘i take it everywhere,’ she says.
46 She is unusually small for a catwalk model, with a height of around 5ft 6in.
47 SHE’S also unusually generous, with her friend, the hairdresser James Brown, once telling me that she frequently donated to charities, but preferred to keep her largesse a private matter.
48 She’S the world’s most prolific Vogue cover girl, appearing on the cover of British Vogue 44 times, as well as notching up 16 Paris covers and five American.
49 AS OF 2022, she had a net worth of $70 million.
50 in 2000, she briefly retired from modelling, allegedly calling her agency, Storm, to say she was quitting. ‘i didn’t want to say “i’m a model” ever’ again,’ she told Time Out.