Expect model behaviour from Kate Moss’s daughter
THOSE pictures of Kate Moss’s daughter, Lila Grace, fronting a hair-braid campaign have cheered me up no end. There she is, in braces and plaits, looking every inch what she is; no, not the pouting supernova offspring of a global brand – a 14-year-old girl.
She looks confident, streetwise and in control as she poses in a grey sweatshirt, a world away from the shots of her mother, who was “discovered” at the same age. Moss is now 43 and both she and Lila Grace’s father, the achingly cool publisher Jefferson Hack, have been protective of their daughter. But after appearing with her mother on the cover of Italian Vogue last June, Lila Grace has been signed up to Moss’s model agency. She is a pretty girl, who strongly resembles her mother and will doubtless grow into an out-andout beauty.
Moss once admitted that she had wept after she was coerced into posing topless at the age of 16 with threats that she would be dropped if she refused. An overtly sexy Calvin Klein shoot with Mark Wahlberg later precipitated a breakdown. She was just an ordinary girl from Croydon. Judging from her assertive first photoshoot and her protective parents, there’s mercifully no danger of Lila Grace allowing history to repeat itself.