Kate on tatt-walk
Supermodel inks her tattoo artist
KATE Moss turns the tables on her favourite tattooist – by giving HIM a new etching on his arm.
The catwalk queen inked longtime pal Daniel Casone, who she trusted to touch up her famous swallows tattoo by British artist Lucian Freud.
Daniel told the Sunday Mirror: “She said she wanted to learn tattooing from me so we can go to Glastonbury to tattoo people. She called me to go up and tattoo her and she ended up tattooing me as well. She gave me a ‘Kate’ and a love heart on my arm.”
Hungarian Daniel also revealed he had put singer Rita Ora, 30, through her paces too – and her name is also drawn on his arm, next to Kate and the heart.
Asked if Kate knew what to do when she was given the tattooist’s needle,
Daniel, 38, replied: “Not really, but it’s Kate Moss, so I was like yeah, let her.
“It was quite painful because they didn’t know what to do and they went quite deep but I thought you know what, I don’t mind.”
Daniel said of Rita’s efforts: “I think there was a little bit of competition
between her and
TATT’S THE WAY Daniel etches Kate’s arm
Kate. These people have a lot of life experience but one thing they haven’t done is tattoo people. I give them the machine and they start shaking like a leaf. They are out of their comfort zone, but it is an unforgettable experience.”
Daniel has known Kate, 47, for years – since she first visited his parlour near her home in Highgate, North London.
She is thought to have seven tattoos including an anchor and two hearts.
Artist Freud, who died in 2011 aged 88, drew the swallows on her back. Kate told Vanity Fair: “He told me about when he was in the navy and he used to do all of the tattoos for the sailors.
“And I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s amazing.’ And he went, ‘I can do you one. What would you like? Would you like creatures of the animal kingdom?’
“I mean, it’s an original Freud. I wonder how much a collector would pay for that? A few million?”
Daniel told of the day he touched up the tattoo, saying: “I went to her house for Sadie Frost’s birthday party a few years ago and did a smiley face on her arm, but went over some of her old tattoos as well. She had these old tattoos and they don’t really look too good.
“One of them was of two little stars on her inner arm and then the other one was from Lucian Freud, of swallows.
“I did not want to touch his work but I did a little touch-up and freshened it up a little bit for her.”
Daniel started tattooing in 2005 and his clients include England footballers Raheem Sterling and Jadon Sancho and singers Mutya Buena and Shola Ama.
He has moved back to his native Budapest but flies around the world tattooing the rich and famous.