THE WRITE STUFF! KATE’S £1,700 GRAFFITI COAT

Supermodel wears homage to iconic artist

SHE has graced the world’s top catwalks in fancy designer frocks.

But Kate Moss went write back to basics when she popped to the shops in a coat which appeared to be covered in doodles.

The coat – featuring a drawing of a police car and random words including ‘potato head’ and ‘electric’ – is actually a £1,700 creation by fashion brand Coach in homage to US artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Supermodel Miss Moss, 46, wore the beige coat as she went shopping with a friend in Soho this week. Coach has celebrated Basquiat with a collection featuring elements from his revolutionary work. The artist, pictured, who died of a drugs overdose in 1988 aged 27, created graffiti on the streets of New York before becoming an international star. He set a record for a US artist when a 1982 painting of a skull sold at auction in 2017 for £86million. Miss Moss returned to London last month after isolating in her Cotswolds mansion with her daughter Lila Grace, 17, half-sister Lottie, 22, and her partner the photographer Count Nikolai von Bismarck, 33. The couple have been in a relationship since 2015. Miss Moss and Lila Grace, whose father is magazine publisher Jefferson Hack, 49, also enjoyed a holiday on a tiny island near Ibiza. The teenager is following in her mother’s modelling footsteps and has already taken part in a beauty campaign for US design label Marc Jacobs.